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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nepal	Burkina Faso	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	11,075	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	11,405	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	11,828	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	12,380	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	12,829	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	13,178	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	13,540	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	13,917	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	14,309	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	14,722	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	15,152	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	15,600	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	16,064	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	16,563	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	17,072	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	17,575	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	18,094	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	18,621	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	19,157	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	19,698	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	20,242	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	20,788	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	21,336	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	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 Nepal, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.