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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 DominicaCentral African RepublicJordan
703,8894,591
713,9804,700
714,0544,811
724,1284,923
724,2155,037
724,2895,161
724,3635,295
724,4495,765
724,5446,243
734,6416,397
734,7426,538
734,8456,680
734,9506,840
735,0576,952
735,1677,706
735,2788,839
745,3929,506
745,5079,863
745,62510,066
745,74510,273
755,87410,480
756,02510,628
766,15410,716
766,29110,849

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.