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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date AfghanistanCongo - KinshasaJordan
22,20651,1814,591
22,46152,7824,700
22,50754,4534,811
23,60056,1704,923
25,00557,8605,037
25,69859,5995,161
26,33561,4745,295
27,15463,4795,765
27,38765,5906,243
27,70667,8006,397
28,48470,1146,538
29,12172,5506,680
29,75875,1386,840
30,42077,7926,952
31,10880,5347,706
31,82383,3688,839
32,56486,2299,506
33,33289,1939,863
34,12592,20910,066
34,94195,23210,273
35,97298,32010,480
37,034101,49910,628
38,127104,76710,716
39,252108,17110,849

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 Afghanistan, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.