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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Romania	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	22,414	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	22,262	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	22,106	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	21,931	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	21,828	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	21,704	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	21,571	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	21,443	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	21,129	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	20,779	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	20,607	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	20,485	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	20,385	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	20,296	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	20,224	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	20,151	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	20,055	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	19,938	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	19,823	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	19,713	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	19,622	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	19,496	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	19,351	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	19,266	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

Saudi Arabia

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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