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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Romania	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	22,414	273
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	22,262	274
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	22,106	275
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	21,931	276
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	21,828	278
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	21,704	279
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	21,571	280
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	21,443	281
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	21,129	282
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	20,779	283
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	20,607	285
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	20,485	286
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	20,385	287
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	20,296	288
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	20,224	289
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	20,151	290
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	20,055	291
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	19,938	291
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	19,823	292
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	19,713	293
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	19,622	294
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	19,496	294
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	19,351	295
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	19,266	295

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.