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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Jordan	Romania	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	4,591	22,414	138
Dec 31, 2000	4,700	22,262	141
Dec 31, 2001	4,811	22,106	144
Dec 31, 2002	4,923	21,931	147
Dec 31, 2003	5,037	21,828	151
Dec 31, 2004	5,161	21,704	154
Dec 31, 2005	5,295	21,571	158
Dec 31, 2006	5,765	21,443	161
Dec 31, 2007	6,243	21,129	165
Dec 31, 2008	6,397	20,779	168
Dec 31, 2009	6,538	20,607	172
Dec 31, 2010	6,680	20,485	176
Dec 31, 2011	6,840	20,385	180
Dec 31, 2012	6,952	20,296	183
Dec 31, 2013	7,706	20,224	187
Dec 31, 2014	8,839	20,151	190
Dec 31, 2015	9,506	20,055	194
Dec 31, 2016	9,863	19,938	198
Dec 31, 2017	10,066	19,823	201
Dec 31, 2018	10,273	19,713	204
Dec 31, 2019	10,480	19,622	208
Dec 31, 2020	10,628	19,496	212
Dec 31, 2021	10,716	19,351	216
Dec 31, 2022	10,849	19,266	220

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 São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.