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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	10,437

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

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995