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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	Senegal	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,070	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,305	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,576	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,864	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	278	11,172	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	279	11,498	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	280	11,839	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	281	12,204	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	282	12,584	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	283	12,978	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	285	13,382	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	286	13,794	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	287	14,226	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	288	14,668	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,121	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,589	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	291	16,066	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,549	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,044	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,535	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	294	18,021	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	18,518	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,016	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,512	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 Barbados, Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.