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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Paraguay	Congo - Kinshasa	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	51,181	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	52,782	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	54,453	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	56,170	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	57,860	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	59,599	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	61,474	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	63,479	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	65,590	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	67,800	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	70,114	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	72,550	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	75,138	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	77,792	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	80,534	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	83,368	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	86,229	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	89,193	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	92,209	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	95,232	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	98,320	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	101,499	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	104,767	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	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 Paraguay, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.