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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Saudi ArabiaRomaniaHonduras
19,96422,4146,198
20,42622,2626,367
20,95622,1066,535
21,54921,9316,698
22,18921,8286,863
22,85021,7047,028
23,51621,5717,194
24,17821,4437,359
24,84121,1297,522
25,51820,7797,682
26,22720,6077,839
27,06820,4857,991
27,81020,3858,141
28,51620,2968,288
29,22020,2248,429
29,93620,1518,546
30,64620,0558,661
31,36019,9388,770
32,18419,8238,878
32,86919,7139,002
33,66119,6229,154
34,54219,4969,304
33,65119,3519,448
34,08119,2669,590

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 Honduras; the database as a whole is cited above.