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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 JordanUnited Arab EmiratesCongo - Kinshasa
4,5913,10151,181
4,7003,28452,782
4,8113,45854,453
4,9233,61356,170
5,0373,75457,860
5,1613,88259,599
5,2954,00061,474
5,7654,53263,479
6,2435,62365,590
6,3977,27767,800
6,5388,16470,114
6,6808,15272,550
6,8408,43875,138
6,9528,74777,792
7,7069,07780,534
8,8399,32183,368
9,5069,46186,229
9,8639,58789,193
10,0669,69992,209
10,2739,79695,232
10,4809,87998,320
10,6289,953101,499
10,71610,018104,767
10,84910,099108,171

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

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 United Arab Emirates, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.