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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Ecuador	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	12,268	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	12,446	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	12,629	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	12,827	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	13,074	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	13,368	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	13,661	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	13,915	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	14,133	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	14,352	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	14,569	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	14,786	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	15,002	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	15,218	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	15,433	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	15,647	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	15,860	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	16,072	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	16,282	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	16,489	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	16,693	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	16,894	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	17,093	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	17,288	83,811

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.