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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Jordan	Congo - Kinshasa	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	4,591	51,181	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	4,700	52,782	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	4,811	54,453	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	4,923	56,170	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	5,037	57,860	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	5,161	59,599	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	5,295	61,474	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	5,765	63,479	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	6,243	65,590	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	6,397	67,800	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	6,538	70,114	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	6,680	72,550	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	6,840	75,138	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	6,952	77,792	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	7,706	80,534	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	8,839	83,368	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	9,506	86,229	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	9,863	89,193	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	10,066	92,209	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	10,273	95,232	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	10,480	98,320	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	10,628	101,499	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	10,716	104,767	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	10,849	108,171	3,228

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.