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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Greece	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	10,618	627
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	10,662	659
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	10,718	691
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	10,757	724
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	10,783	757
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	10,809	850
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	10,841	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	10,874	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	10,901	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	10,930	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	10,959	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	10,973	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	10,957	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	10,898	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	10,819	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	10,747	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	10,677	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	10,633	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	10,612	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	10,590	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	10,579	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	10,556	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	10,499	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	10,437	2,559

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

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