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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDominicaSudanJordan
2737026,1684,591
2747126,7714,700
2757127,3874,811
2767228,0174,923
2787228,6625,037
2797229,3215,161
2807229,9965,295
2817230,6865,765
2827231,3936,243
2837332,1376,397
2857333,0786,538
2867333,8916,680
2877334,5686,840
2887335,2936,952
2897336,0937,706
2907337,0588,839
2917438,1659,506
2917439,2949,863
2927440,51210,066
2937441,76410,273
2947542,95210,480
2947544,12110,628
2957645,29010,716
2957646,49810,849

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 Barbados, Dominica, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.