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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Moldova	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	4,244	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	4,199	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	4,154	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	4,108	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	4,059	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	4,013	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	3,966	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	3,919	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	3,873	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	3,829	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	3,788	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	3,748	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	3,709	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	3,671	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	3,633	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	3,595	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	3,558	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	3,522	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	3,485	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	3,448	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	3,412	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	3,376	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	3,339	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	3,570	21,889

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.