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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	7,432

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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.