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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 JordanCongo - KinshasaBurkina Faso
4,59151,18111,075
4,70052,78211,405
4,81154,45311,828
4,92356,17012,380
5,03757,86012,829
5,16159,59913,178
5,29561,47413,540
5,76563,47913,917
6,24365,59014,309
6,39767,80014,722
6,53870,11415,152
6,68072,55015,600
6,84075,13816,064
6,95277,79216,563
7,70680,53417,072
8,83983,36817,575
9,50686,22918,094
9,86389,19318,621
10,06692,20919,157
10,27395,23219,698
10,48098,32020,242
10,628101,49920,788
10,716104,76721,336
10,849108,17121,889

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.