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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 SudanSaudi Arabia
26,16819,964
26,77120,426
27,38720,956
28,01721,549
28,66222,189
29,32122,850
29,99623,516
30,68624,178
31,39324,841
32,13725,518
33,07826,227
33,89127,068
34,56827,810
35,29328,516
36,09329,220
37,05829,936
38,16530,646
39,29431,360
40,51232,184
41,76432,869
42,95233,661
44,12134,542
45,29033,651
46,49834,081

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.