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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Oman	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	2,348	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	2,403	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	2,457	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	2,510	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	2,562	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	2,613	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	2,663	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	2,713	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	2,764	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	2,816	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	2,871	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	2,928	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	2,986	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	3,047	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	3,110	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	3,174	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	3,240	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	3,307	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	3,375	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	3,444	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	3,512	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	3,582	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	3,651	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	3,696	12,060

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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