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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Puerto Rico	Congo - Kinshasa	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	3,800	51,181	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	3,811	52,782	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	3,819	54,453	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	3,824	56,170	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	3,826	57,860	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	3,827	59,599	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	3,822	61,474	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	3,805	63,479	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	3,783	65,590	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	3,761	67,800	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	3,741	70,114	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	3,722	72,550	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	3,679	75,138	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	3,636	77,792	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	3,589	80,534	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	3,534	83,368	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	3,473	86,229	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	3,411	89,193	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	3,352	92,209	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	3,295	95,232	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	3,268	98,320	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	3,247	101,499	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	3,232	104,767	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	3,228	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 Puerto Rico, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.