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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Jordan	Qatar	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	4,591	627	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	4,700	659	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	4,811	691	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	4,923	724	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	5,037	757	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	5,161	850	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	5,295	1,001	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	5,765	1,153	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	6,243	1,306	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	6,397	1,460	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	6,538	1,615	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	6,680	1,770	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	6,840	1,904	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	6,952	2,010	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	7,706	2,103	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	8,839	2,187	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	9,506	2,261	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	9,863	2,326	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	10,066	2,384	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	10,273	2,435	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	10,480	2,480	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	10,628	2,519	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	10,716	2,553	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	10,849	2,559	19,266

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

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.