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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 YemenSaudi Arabia
16,72819,964
17,23620,426
17,76220,956
18,31021,549
18,85522,189
19,41022,850
20,00023,516
20,61124,178
21,23624,841
21,87825,518
22,53326,227
23,19527,068
23,88027,810
24,59428,516
25,31129,220
26,02029,936
26,69830,646
27,34731,360
27,98532,184
28,60832,869
29,21633,661
29,81134,542
30,39933,651
31,05834,081

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.