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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	3,228

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 Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.