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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mexico	Oman	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	97,242	2,348	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	98,403	2,403	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	99,599	2,457	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	100,863	2,510	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	102,132	2,562	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	103,334	2,613	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	104,508	2,663	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	105,738	2,713	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	107,083	2,764	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	108,554	2,816	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	110,061	2,871	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	111,468	2,928	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	112,826	2,986	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	114,163	3,047	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	115,471	3,110	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	116,757	3,174	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	118,017	3,240	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	117,444	3,307	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	118,799	3,375	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	120,289	3,444	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	121,872	3,512	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	123,260	3,582	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	124,462	3,651	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	125,247	3,696	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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.