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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Jordan	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	4,591	51,181	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	4,700	52,782	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	4,811	54,453	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	4,923	56,170	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	5,037	57,860	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	5,161	59,599	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	5,295	61,474	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	5,765	63,479	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	6,243	65,590	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	6,397	67,800	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	6,538	70,114	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	6,680	72,550	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	6,840	75,138	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	6,952	77,792	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	7,706	80,534	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	8,839	83,368	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	9,506	86,229	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	9,863	89,193	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	10,066	92,209	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	10,273	95,232	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	10,480	98,320	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	10,628	101,499	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	10,716	104,767	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	10,849	108,171	2,787

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.