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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 MacedoniaJordanCongo - Kinshasa
2,0064,59151,181
2,0174,70052,782
2,0264,81154,453
2,0114,92356,170
2,0185,03757,860
2,0245,16159,599
2,0285,29561,474
2,0315,76563,479
2,0356,24365,590
2,0386,39767,800
2,0426,53870,114
2,0466,68072,550
2,0496,84075,138
2,0526,95277,792
2,0557,70680,534
2,0588,83983,368
2,0619,50686,229
2,0639,86389,193
2,06510,06692,209
2,06710,27395,232
2,06810,48098,320
2,06510,628101,499
2,05710,716104,767
2,04810,849108,171

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

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.