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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	146,693

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.