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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 ArabiaQatar
26,16819,964627
26,77120,426659
27,38720,956691
28,01721,549724
28,66222,189757
29,32122,850850
29,99623,5161,001
30,68624,1781,153
31,39324,8411,306
32,13725,5181,460
33,07826,2271,615
33,89127,0681,770
34,56827,8101,904
35,29328,5162,010
36,09329,2202,103
37,05829,9362,187
38,16530,6462,261
39,29431,3602,326
40,51232,1842,384
41,76432,8692,435
42,95233,6612,480
44,12134,5422,519
45,29033,6512,553
46,49834,0812,559

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, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.