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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Indonesia	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	277	208,105	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	281	211,408	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	285	214,475	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	288	217,516	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	289	220,549	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	293	224,473	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	296	227,534	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	304	230,739	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	311	233,918	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	319	237,056	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	319	240,140	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	318	243,171	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	319	246,150	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	321	249,086	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	324	251,947	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	327	254,702	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	331	257,351	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	335	259,906	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	343	262,379	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	353	264,789	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	361	267,142	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	269,437	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	372	271,674	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	380	273,409	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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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