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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Sudan	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	433	26,168	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	438	26,771	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	443	27,387	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	448	28,017	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	454	28,662	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	460	29,321	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	467	29,996	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	474	30,686	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	482	31,393	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	491	32,137	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	500	33,078	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	509	33,891	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	521	34,568	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	533	35,293	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	547	36,093	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	560	37,058	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	571	38,165	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	586	39,294	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	599	40,512	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	610	41,764	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	623	42,952	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	633	44,121	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	643	45,290	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	651	46,498	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, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.