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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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