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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Oman	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	2,348	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	2,403	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	2,457	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	2,510	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	2,562	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	2,613	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	2,663	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	2,713	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	2,764	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	2,816	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	2,871	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	2,928	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	2,986	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	3,047	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	3,110	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	3,174	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	3,240	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	3,307	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	3,375	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	3,444	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	3,512	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	3,582	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	3,651	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	3,696	4,259

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 Oman, Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.