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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Laos	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	433	5,286	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	438	5,397	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	443	5,499	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	448	5,578	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	454	5,654	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	460	5,746	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	467	5,836	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	474	5,931	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	482	6,035	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	491	6,145	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	500	6,257	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	509	6,368	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	521	6,477	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	533	6,586	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	547	6,695	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	560	6,804	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	571	6,912	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	586	7,019	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	599	7,127	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	610	7,234	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	623	7,343	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	633	7,452	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	643	7,560	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	651	7,666	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, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.