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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Romania	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	22,414	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	22,262	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	22,106	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	21,931	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	21,828	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	21,704	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	21,571	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	21,443	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	21,129	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	20,779	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	20,607	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	20,485	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	20,385	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	20,296	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	20,224	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	20,151	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	20,055	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	19,938	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	19,823	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	19,713	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	19,622	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	19,496	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	19,351	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	19,266	13,087

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 Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.