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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaCongo - KinshasaJordan
3,81151,1814,591
3,90152,7824,700
3,91954,4534,811
3,92356,1704,923
3,94057,8605,037
3,97559,5995,161
3,99161,4745,295
3,99363,4795,765
3,99065,5906,243
3,98767,8006,397
3,98570,1146,538
3,98372,5506,680
3,98075,1386,840
3,97777,7926,952
3,97380,5347,706
3,96883,3688,839
3,96386,2299,506
3,95789,1939,863
3,95192,20910,066
3,94495,23210,273
3,93798,32010,480
3,929101,49910,628
3,921104,76710,716
3,876108,17110,849

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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