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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 - KinshasaOman
4,59151,1812,348
4,70052,7822,403
4,81154,4532,457
4,92356,1702,510
5,03757,8602,562
5,16159,5992,613
5,29561,4742,663
5,76563,4792,713
6,24365,5902,764
6,39767,8002,816
6,53870,1142,871
6,68072,5502,928
6,84075,1382,986
6,95277,7923,047
7,70680,5343,110
8,83983,3683,174
9,50686,2293,240
9,86389,1933,307
10,06692,2093,375
10,27395,2323,444
10,48098,3203,512
10,628101,4993,582
10,716104,7673,651
10,849108,1713,696

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.