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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 ChileJordanCongo - Kinshasa
15,1404,59151,181
15,3404,70052,782
15,5134,81154,453
15,6864,92356,170
15,8595,03757,860
16,0295,16159,599
16,2225,29561,474
16,3645,76563,479
16,5366,24365,590
16,7006,39767,800
16,8646,53870,114
16,9996,68072,550
17,1896,84075,138
17,3786,95277,792
17,5457,70680,534
17,7208,83983,368
17,9049,50686,229
18,0999,86389,193
18,35010,06692,209
18,68110,27395,232
19,03510,48098,320
19,38510,628101,499
19,60410,716104,767
19,71510,849108,171

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.