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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Barbados	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	70	273	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	71	274	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	71	275	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	72	276	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	72	278	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	72	279	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	72	280	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	72	281	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	72	282	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	73	283	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	73	285	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	73	286	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	73	287	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	73	288	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	73	289	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	73	290	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	74	291	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	74	291	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	74	292	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	74	293	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	75	294	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	75	294	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	76	295	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	76	295	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 Dominica, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.