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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Oman	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	2,348	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	2,403	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	2,457	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	2,510	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	2,562	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	2,613	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	2,663	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	2,713	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	2,764	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	2,816	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	2,871	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	2,928	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	2,986	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	3,047	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	3,110	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	3,174	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	3,240	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	3,307	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	3,375	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	3,444	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	3,512	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	3,582	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	3,651	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	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 Burkina Faso, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.