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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 ChileCongo - KinshasaJordan
15,14051,1814,591
15,34052,7824,700
15,51354,4534,811
15,68656,1704,923
15,85957,8605,037
16,02959,5995,161
16,22261,4745,295
16,36463,4795,765
16,53665,5906,243
16,70067,8006,397
16,86470,1146,538
16,99972,5506,680
17,18975,1386,840
17,37877,7926,952
17,54580,5347,706
17,72083,3688,839
17,90486,2299,506
18,09989,1939,863
18,35092,20910,066
18,68195,23210,273
19,03598,32010,480
19,385101,49910,628
19,604104,76710,716
19,715108,17110,849

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

Chile

  • 1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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; the database as a whole is cited above.