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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Jordan	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,591	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,700	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,811	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,923	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,037	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,161	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,295	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,765	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,243	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,397	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,538	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,680	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,840	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,952	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,706	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,839	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,506	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,863	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,066	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,273	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,480	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,628	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,716	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,849	273,409

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

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