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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Jordan	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	433	4,591	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	438	4,700	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	443	4,811	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	448	4,923	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	454	5,037	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	460	5,161	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	467	5,295	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	474	5,765	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	482	6,243	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	491	6,397	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	500	6,538	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	509	6,680	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	521	6,840	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	533	6,952	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	547	7,706	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	560	8,839	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	571	9,506	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	586	9,863	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	599	10,066	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	610	10,273	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	623	10,480	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	633	10,628	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	643	10,716	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	651	10,849	5,907

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, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.