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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ethiopia	Oman	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	63,575	2,348	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	65,213	2,403	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	66,889	2,457	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	68,649	2,510	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	70,491	2,562	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	72,389	2,613	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	74,327	2,663	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	76,326	2,713	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	78,411	2,764	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	80,564	2,816	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	82,787	2,871	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	85,096	2,928	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	87,530	2,986	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	90,066	3,047	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	92,632	3,110	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	95,337	3,174	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	98,114	3,240	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	100,858	3,307	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	103,654	3,375	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	106,466	3,444	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	109,267	3,512	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	112,100	3,582	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	114,964	3,651	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	117,924	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 Ethiopia, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.