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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 JordanCambodiaCongo - Kinshasa
4,59112,12251,181
4,70012,31752,782
4,81112,50454,453
4,92312,69156,170
5,03712,88157,860
5,16113,07659,599
5,29513,27661,474
5,76513,46163,479
6,24313,63065,590
6,39713,80867,800
6,53813,99070,114
6,68014,16272,550
6,84014,32275,138
6,95214,48077,792
7,70614,63780,534
8,83914,79383,368
9,50614,99486,229
9,86315,23889,193
10,06615,48092,209
10,27315,71795,232
10,48015,94498,320
10,62816,149101,499
10,71616,338104,767
10,84916,514108,171

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