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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Congo - Kinshasa	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	70	51,181	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	71	52,782	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	71	54,453	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	72	56,170	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	72	57,860	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	72	59,599	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	72	61,474	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	72	63,479	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	72	65,590	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	73	67,800	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	73	70,114	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	73	72,550	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	73	75,138	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	73	77,792	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	73	80,534	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	73	83,368	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	74	86,229	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	74	89,193	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	74	92,209	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	74	95,232	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	75	98,320	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	75	101,499	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	76	104,767	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	76	108,171	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 Dominica, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.