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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Qatar	Jordan	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	627	4,591	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	659	4,700	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	691	4,811	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	724	4,923	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	757	5,037	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	850	5,161	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	1,001	5,295	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	1,153	5,765	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	1,306	6,243	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	1,460	6,397	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	1,615	6,538	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	1,770	6,680	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	1,904	6,840	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	2,010	6,952	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	2,103	7,706	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	2,187	8,839	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	2,261	9,506	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	2,326	9,863	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	2,384	10,066	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	2,435	10,273	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	2,480	10,480	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	2,519	10,628	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	2,553	10,716	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	2,559	10,849	108,171

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