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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Jordan	Romania	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	4,591	22,414	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	4,700	22,262	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	4,811	22,106	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	4,923	21,931	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	5,037	21,828	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	5,161	21,704	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	5,295	21,571	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	5,765	21,443	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	6,243	21,129	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	6,397	20,779	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	6,538	20,607	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	6,680	20,485	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	6,840	20,385	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	6,952	20,296	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	7,706	20,224	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	8,839	20,151	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	9,506	20,055	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	9,863	19,938	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	10,066	19,823	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	10,273	19,713	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	10,480	19,622	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	10,628	19,496	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	10,716	19,351	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	10,849	19,266	121,234

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.