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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date JordanRomaniaTrinidad & Tobago
4,59122,4141,301
4,70022,2621,303
4,81122,1061,308
4,92321,9311,314
5,03721,8281,320
5,16121,7041,326
5,29521,5711,332
5,76521,4431,338
6,24321,1291,344
6,39720,7791,352
6,53820,6071,359
6,68020,4851,365
6,84020,3851,372
6,95220,2961,379
7,70620,2241,386
8,83920,1511,392
9,50620,0551,399
9,86319,9381,405
10,06619,8231,411
10,27319,7131,436
10,48019,6221,452
10,62819,4961,448
10,71619,3511,450
10,84919,2661,456

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 Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.