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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaLebanonCongo - Kinshasa
3,8113,46051,181
3,9013,49952,782
3,9193,55454,453
3,9233,61056,170
3,9403,66557,860
3,9753,72159,599
3,9913,77761,474
3,9933,85363,479
3,9903,95465,590
3,9874,03667,800
3,9854,08270,114
3,9834,09772,550
3,9804,11575,138
3,9774,20677,792
3,9734,69680,534
3,9685,36583,368
3,9635,64086,229
3,9575,68889,193
3,9515,68092,209
3,9445,56295,232
3,9375,33198,320
3,9294,986101,499
3,9214,802104,767
3,8764,713108,171

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Lebanon

  • 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.