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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Jordan	Ethiopia
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,591	63,575
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,700	65,213
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,811	66,889
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,923	68,649
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,037	70,491
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,161	72,389
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,295	74,327
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,765	76,326
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,243	78,411
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,397	80,564
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,538	82,787
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,680	85,096
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,840	87,530
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,952	90,066
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,706	92,632
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,839	95,337
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,506	98,114
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,863	100,858
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,066	103,654
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,273	106,466
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,480	109,267
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,628	112,100
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,716	114,964
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,849	117,924

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 Ethiopia; the database as a whole is cited above.