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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	9,188

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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

Israel

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91