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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Jordan	Burkina Faso	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,591	11,075	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,700	11,405	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,811	11,828	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,923	12,380	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,037	12,829	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,161	13,178	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,295	13,540	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,765	13,917	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,243	14,309	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,397	14,722	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,538	15,152	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,680	15,600	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,840	16,064	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,952	16,563	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,706	17,072	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,839	17,575	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,506	18,094	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,863	18,621	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,066	19,157	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,273	19,698	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,480	20,242	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,628	20,788	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,716	21,336	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,849	21,889	1,330

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.

All data sources

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 Burkina Faso, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.