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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Moldova	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	4,244	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	4,199	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	4,154	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	4,108	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	4,059	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	4,013	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	3,966	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	3,919	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	3,873	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	3,829	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	3,788	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	3,748	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	3,709	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	3,671	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	3,633	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	3,595	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	3,558	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	3,522	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	3,485	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	3,448	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	3,412	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	3,376	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	3,339	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	3,570	2,787

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

No separate list is published for Moldova, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.