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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Burkina Faso	Haiti
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	11,075	8,121
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	11,405	8,279
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	11,828	8,430
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	12,380	8,580
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	12,829	8,739
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	13,178	8,900
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	13,540	9,061
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	13,917	9,216
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	14,309	9,364
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	14,722	9,508
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	15,152	9,652
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	15,600	9,553
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	16,064	9,670
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	16,563	9,793
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	17,072	9,922
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	17,575	10,047
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	18,094	10,254
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	18,621	10,486
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	19,157	10,647
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	19,698	10,788
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	20,242	10,933
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	20,788	11,077
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	21,336	11,215
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	21,889	11,349

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso, Haiti; the database as a whole is cited above.