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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Estonia	Congo - Kinshasa	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	1,378	51,181	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	1,400	52,782	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	1,391	54,453	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	1,382	56,170	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	1,374	57,860	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	1,365	59,599	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	1,357	61,474	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	1,349	63,479	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	1,341	65,590	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	1,337	67,800	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	1,334	70,114	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	1,332	72,550	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	1,328	75,138	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	1,324	77,792	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	1,319	80,534	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	1,314	83,368	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	1,312	86,229	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	1,314	89,193	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	1,314	92,209	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	1,318	95,232	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	1,323	98,320	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	1,327	101,499	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	1,329	104,767	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	1,330	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 Estonia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.