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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date JordanGuineaCongo - Kinshasa
4,5917,61051,181
4,7007,78052,782
4,8117,82154,453
4,9237,90656,170
5,0378,12157,860
5,1618,31759,599
5,2958,47861,474
5,7658,65063,479
6,2438,86065,590
6,3979,09167,800
6,5389,32770,114
6,6809,57172,550
6,8409,82575,138
6,95210,08477,792
7,70610,35180,534
8,83910,63283,368
9,50610,92486,229
9,86311,22589,193
10,06611,53492,209
10,27311,85595,232
10,48012,16098,320
10,62812,469101,499
10,71612,778104,767
10,84913,087108,171

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