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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 Congo - KinshasaParaguayJordan
51,1815,3664,591
52,7825,4734,700
54,4535,5794,811
56,1705,6834,923
57,8605,7865,037
59,5995,8865,161
61,4745,9845,295
63,4796,0805,765
65,5906,1736,243
67,8006,2646,397
70,1146,3526,538
72,5506,4386,680
75,1386,5226,840
77,7926,6056,952
80,5346,6887,706
83,3686,7698,839
86,2296,8509,506
89,1936,9309,863
92,2097,01210,066
95,2327,09510,273
98,3207,17910,480
101,4997,26310,628
104,7677,34810,716
108,1717,43210,849

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