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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 JordanMoldovaCongo - Kinshasa
4,5914,24451,181
4,7004,19952,782
4,8114,15454,453
4,9234,10856,170
5,0374,05957,860
5,1614,01359,599
5,2953,96661,474
5,7653,91963,479
6,2433,87365,590
6,3973,82967,800
6,5383,78870,114
6,6803,74872,550
6,8403,70975,138
6,9523,67177,792
7,7063,63380,534
8,8393,59583,368
9,5063,55886,229
9,8633,52289,193
10,0663,48592,209
10,2733,44895,232
10,4803,41298,320
10,6283,376101,499
10,7163,339104,767
10,8493,570108,171

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