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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Jordan	Romania	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	4,591	22,414	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	4,700	22,262	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	4,811	22,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	4,923	21,931	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	5,037	21,828	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	5,161	21,704	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	5,295	21,571	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	5,765	21,443	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	6,243	21,129	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	6,397	20,779	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	6,538	20,607	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	6,680	20,485	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	6,840	20,385	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	6,952	20,296	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	7,706	20,224	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	8,839	20,151	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	9,506	20,055	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	9,863	19,938	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	10,066	19,823	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	10,273	19,713	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	10,480	19,622	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	10,628	19,496	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	10,716	19,351	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	10,849	19,266	3,876

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project