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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Oman	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	2,348	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	2,403	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	2,457	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	2,510	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	2,562	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	2,613	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	2,663	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	2,713	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	2,764	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	2,816	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	2,871	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	2,928	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	2,986	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	3,047	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	3,110	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	3,174	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	3,240	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	3,307	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	3,375	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	3,444	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	3,512	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	3,582	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	3,651	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	3,696	10,849

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

Jordan

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
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 Afghanistan, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.