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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 ArabiaRomaniaMorocco
19,96422,41428,400
20,42622,26228,744
20,95622,10629,094
21,54921,93129,447
22,18921,82829,806
22,85021,70430,169
23,51621,57130,552
24,17821,44330,953
24,84121,12931,354
25,51820,77931,754
26,22720,60732,154
27,06820,48532,553
27,81020,38532,951
28,51620,29633,346
29,22020,22433,737
29,93620,15134,124
30,64620,05534,511
31,36019,93834,898
32,18419,82335,279
32,86919,71335,653
33,66119,62236,018
34,54219,49636,375
33,65119,35136,723
34,08119,26637,101

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 Morocco; the database as a whole is cited above.