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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	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	31,058

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