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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Kingdom	Jordan	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	4,591	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	4,700	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	4,811	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	4,923	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	5,037	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	5,161	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	5,295	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	5,765	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	6,243	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	6,397	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	6,538	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	6,680	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	6,840	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	6,952	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	7,706	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	8,839	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	9,506	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	9,863	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	10,066	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	10,273	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	10,480	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	10,628	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	10,716	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	10,849	19,266

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

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.