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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 CameroonBurkina FasoJordan
15,48311,0754,591
15,91311,4054,700
16,35411,8284,811
16,81512,3804,923
17,28912,8295,037
17,76413,1785,161
18,24913,5405,295
18,74613,9175,765
19,27814,3096,243
19,84314,7226,397
20,41915,1526,538
21,00215,6006,680
21,58616,0646,840
22,18116,5636,952
22,80017,0727,706
23,51317,5758,839
24,27318,0949,506
24,99518,6219,863
25,68019,15710,066
26,37319,69810,273
27,11420,24210,480
27,87820,78810,628
28,66321,33610,716
29,41721,88910,849

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 Cameroon, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.