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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Moldova	Congo - Kinshasa	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	4,244	51,181	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	4,199	52,782	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	4,154	54,453	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	4,108	56,170	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	4,059	57,860	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	4,013	59,599	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	3,966	61,474	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	3,919	63,479	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	3,873	65,590	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	3,829	67,800	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	3,788	70,114	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	3,748	72,550	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	3,709	75,138	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	3,671	77,792	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	3,633	80,534	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	3,595	83,368	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	3,558	86,229	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	3,522	89,193	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	3,485	92,209	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	3,448	95,232	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	3,412	98,320	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	3,376	101,499	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	3,339	104,767	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	3,570	108,171	10,849

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