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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 CambodiaCongo - KinshasaJordan
12,12251,1814,591
12,31752,7824,700
12,50454,4534,811
12,69156,1704,923
12,88157,8605,037
13,07659,5995,161
13,27661,4745,295
13,46163,4795,765
13,63065,5906,243
13,80867,8006,397
13,99070,1146,538
14,16272,5506,680
14,32275,1386,840
14,48077,7926,952
14,63780,5347,706
14,79383,3688,839
14,99486,2299,506
15,23889,1939,863
15,48092,20910,066
15,71795,23210,273
15,94498,32010,480
16,149101,49910,628
16,338104,76710,716
16,514108,17110,849

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.