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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Oman	Trinidad & Tobago
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	2,348	1,301
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	2,403	1,303
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	2,457	1,308
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	2,510	1,314
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	2,562	1,320
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	2,613	1,326
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	2,663	1,332
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	2,713	1,338
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	2,764	1,344
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	2,816	1,352
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	2,871	1,359
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	2,928	1,365
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	2,986	1,372
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	3,047	1,379
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	3,110	1,386
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	3,174	1,392
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	3,240	1,399
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	3,307	1,405
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	3,375	1,411
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	3,444	1,436
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	3,512	1,452
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	3,582	1,448
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	3,651	1,450
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	3,696	1,456

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, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.