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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Burkina Faso	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	422	11,075	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	430	11,405	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	438	11,828	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	447	12,380	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	455	12,829	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	463	13,178	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	471	13,540	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	478	13,917	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	486	14,309	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	494	14,722	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	501	15,152	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	509	15,600	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	516	16,064	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	524	16,563	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	531	17,072	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	539	17,575	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	546	18,094	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	553	18,621	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	562	19,157	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	568	19,698	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	574	20,242	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	580	20,788	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	585	21,336	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	590	21,889	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 Cape Verde, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.