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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 MoroccoBurkina FasoJordan
28,40011,0754,591
28,74411,4054,700
29,09411,8284,811
29,44712,3804,923
29,80612,8295,037
30,16913,1785,161
30,55213,5405,295
30,95313,9175,765
31,35414,3096,243
31,75414,7226,397
32,15415,1526,538
32,55315,6006,680
32,95116,0646,840
33,34616,5636,952
33,73717,0727,706
34,12417,5758,839
34,51118,0949,506
34,89818,6219,863
35,27919,15710,066
35,65319,69810,273
36,01820,24210,480
36,37520,78810,628
36,72321,33610,716
37,10121,88910,849

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 Morocco, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.