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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Jordan	Morocco
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,591	28,400
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,700	28,744
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,811	29,094
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,923	29,447
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,037	29,806
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,161	30,169
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,295	30,552
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,765	30,953
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,243	31,354
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,397	31,754
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,538	32,154
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,680	32,553
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,840	32,951
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,952	33,346
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,706	33,737
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,839	34,124
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,506	34,511
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,863	34,898
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,066	35,279
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,273	35,653
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,480	36,018
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,628	36,375
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,716	36,723
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,849	37,101

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 Morocco; the database as a whole is cited above.