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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 JordanPhilippinesCongo - Kinshasa
4,59179,34651,181
4,70081,13152,782
4,81183,02354,453
4,92384,87656,170
5,03786,69757,860
5,16188,56859,599
5,29590,41861,474
5,76592,25363,479
6,24394,09865,590
6,39795,92367,800
6,53897,62770,114
6,68099,31772,550
6,840100,99975,138
6,952102,61877,792
7,706104,29980,534
8,839106,07683,368
9,506107,86886,229
9,863109,49389,193
10,066111,09492,209
10,273112,84395,232
10,480114,63698,320
10,628117,026101,499
10,716119,473104,767
10,849121,234108,171

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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.