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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Honduras	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	277	6,198	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,367	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,535	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	288	6,698	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	289	6,863	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,028	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,194	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	304	7,359	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	311	7,522	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,682	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,839	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,991	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	319	8,141	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,288	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,429	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,546	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,661	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,770	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,878	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	353	9,002	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	361	9,154	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	9,304	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,448	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,590	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.

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 Honduras; the database as a whole is cited above.