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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Oman	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	2,348	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	2,403	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	2,457	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	2,510	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	2,562	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	2,613	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	2,663	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	2,713	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	2,764	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	2,816	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	2,871	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	2,928	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	2,986	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	3,047	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	3,110	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	3,174	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	3,240	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	3,307	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	3,375	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	3,444	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	3,512	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	3,582	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	3,651	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	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

Peru

1600–1812: 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: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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.