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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Saudi ArabiaOmanColombia
19,9642,34838,365
20,4262,40338,911
20,9562,45739,411
21,5492,51039,918
22,1892,56240,416
22,8502,61340,899
23,5162,66341,374
24,1782,71341,862
24,8412,76442,324
25,5182,81642,781
26,2272,87143,264
27,0682,92843,771
27,8102,98644,225
28,5163,04744,660
29,2203,11045,081
29,9363,17445,846
30,6463,24046,290
31,3603,30746,796
32,1843,37547,385
32,8693,44448,222
33,6613,51249,326
34,5423,58250,283
33,6513,65150,978
34,0813,69651,332

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

Colombia

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
  • 1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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