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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 BarbadosMaltaJordanParaguay
2733874,5915,366
2743904,7005,473
2753934,8115,579
2763964,9235,683
2783985,0375,786
2794015,1615,886
2804045,2955,984
2814055,7656,080
2824066,2436,173
2834096,3976,264
2854126,5386,352
2864146,6806,438
2874166,8406,522
2884206,9526,605
2894267,7066,688
2904358,8396,769
2914459,5066,850
2914559,8636,930
29246810,0667,012
29348510,2737,095
29450410,4807,179
29451610,6287,263
29551810,7167,348
29553010,8497,432

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, Malta, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.