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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 ArabiaEcuadorLaos
19,96412,2685,286
20,42612,4465,397
20,95612,6295,499
21,54912,8275,578
22,18913,0745,654
22,85013,3685,746
23,51613,6615,836
24,17813,9155,931
24,84114,1336,035
25,51814,3526,145
26,22714,5696,257
27,06814,7866,368
27,81015,0026,477
28,51615,2186,586
29,22015,4336,695
29,93615,6476,804
30,64615,8606,912
31,36016,0727,019
32,18416,2827,127
32,86916,4897,234
33,66116,6937,343
34,54216,8947,452
33,65117,0937,560
34,08117,2887,666

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.

No separate list is published for Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.