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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	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	46,498

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