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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	5,042

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 Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.