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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Oman	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	2,348	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	2,403	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	2,457	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	2,510	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	2,562	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	2,613	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,663	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,713	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,764	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,816	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,871	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,928	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,986	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,047	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,110	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,174	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,240	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,307	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,375	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,444	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,512	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,582	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,651	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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.