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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 North MacedoniaCongo - KinshasaJordan
2,00651,1814,591
2,01752,7824,700
2,02654,4534,811
2,01156,1704,923
2,01857,8605,037
2,02459,5995,161
2,02861,4745,295
2,03163,4795,765
2,03565,5906,243
2,03867,8006,397
2,04270,1146,538
2,04672,5506,680
2,04975,1386,840
2,05277,7926,952
2,05580,5347,706
2,05883,3688,839
2,06186,2299,506
2,06389,1939,863
2,06592,20910,066
2,06795,23210,273
2,06898,32010,480
2,065101,49910,628
2,057104,76710,716
2,048108,17110,849

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

North Macedonia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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