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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 Burkina FasoCongo - KinshasaJordan
11,07551,1814,591
11,40552,7824,700
11,82854,4534,811
12,38056,1704,923
12,82957,8605,037
13,17859,5995,161
13,54061,4745,295
13,91763,4795,765
14,30965,5906,243
14,72267,8006,397
15,15270,1146,538
15,60072,5506,680
16,06475,1386,840
16,56377,7926,952
17,07280,5347,706
17,57583,3688,839
18,09486,2299,506
18,62189,1939,863
19,15792,20910,066
19,69895,23210,273
20,24298,32010,480
20,788101,49910,628
21,336104,76710,716
21,889108,17110,849

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