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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Mongolia	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,433	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,461	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,489	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,519	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,547	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,574	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,602	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,633	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,666	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,702	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,741	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,783	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,827	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,870	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,912	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,953	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,993	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	3,031	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	3,068	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	3,103	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	3,171	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	3,231	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	3,284	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	3,333	10,849

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