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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Ecuador	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	12,268	433
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	12,446	438
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	12,629	443
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	12,827	448
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	13,074	454
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	13,368	460
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	13,661	467
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	13,915	474
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	14,133	482
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	14,352	491
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	14,569	500
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	14,786	509
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	15,002	521
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	15,218	533
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	15,433	547
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	15,647	560
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	15,860	571
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	16,072	586
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	16,282	599
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	16,489	610
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	16,693	623
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	16,894	633
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	17,093	643
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	17,288	651

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 Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.