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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Jordan	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	4,259

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 Barbados, Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.