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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date MaliJordanCongo - Kinshasa
10,5964,59151,181
10,8334,70052,782
10,8904,81154,453
11,0074,92356,170
11,3075,03757,860
11,5795,16159,599
11,8045,29561,474
12,0435,76563,479
12,3376,24365,590
12,6576,39767,800
12,9866,53870,114
13,3256,68072,550
13,6796,84075,138
14,0406,95277,792
14,4127,70680,534
14,8038,83983,368
15,2109,50686,229
15,6299,86389,193
16,06010,06692,209
16,50710,27395,232
16,96710,48098,320
17,44210,628101,499
17,93010,716104,767
18,49410,849108,171

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

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