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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 UgandaCongo - KinshasaJordan
23,40851,1814,591
24,19552,7824,700
24,99254,4534,811
25,84656,1704,923
26,66157,8605,037
27,41459,5995,161
28,20061,4745,295
29,02163,4795,765
29,84665,5906,243
30,64767,8006,397
31,46970,1146,538
32,34372,5506,680
33,25775,1386,840
34,23477,7926,952
35,27180,5347,706
36,41983,3688,839
37,67386,2299,506
39,15789,1939,863
40,87992,20910,066
42,32995,23210,273
43,63998,32010,480
45,120101,49910,628
46,645104,76710,716
48,065108,17110,849

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

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.