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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Saudi ArabiaBurkina FasoLuxembourg
19,96411,075433
20,42611,405438
20,95611,828443
21,54912,380448
22,18912,829454
22,85013,178460
23,51613,540467
24,17813,917474
24,84114,309482
25,51814,722491
26,22715,152500
27,06815,600509
27,81016,064521
28,51616,563533
29,22017,072547
29,93617,575560
30,64618,094571
31,36018,621586
32,18419,157599
32,86919,698610
33,66120,242623
34,54220,788633
33,65121,336643
34,08121,889651

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, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.