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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Turkmenistan
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	4,324
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	4,385
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	4,444
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	4,502
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	4,556
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	4,608
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	4,664
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	4,719
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	4,773
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	4,828
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	4,884
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	4,940
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	4,996
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	5,053
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	5,110
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	5,169
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	5,227
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	5,287
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	5,346
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	5,405
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	5,464
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	5,522
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	5,579
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	5,657

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

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