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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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