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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Burkina Faso	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	433	11,075	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	438	11,405	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	443	11,828	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	448	12,380	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	454	12,829	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	460	13,178	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	467	13,540	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	474	13,917	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	482	14,309	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	491	14,722	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	500	15,152	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	509	15,600	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	521	16,064	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	533	16,563	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	547	17,072	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	560	17,575	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	571	18,094	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	586	18,621	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	599	19,157	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	610	19,698	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	623	20,242	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	633	20,788	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	643	21,336	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	651	21,889	10,849

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

No separate list is published for Luxembourg, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.