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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosLebanonOmanCongo - Kinshasa
2733,4602,34851,181
2743,4992,40352,782
2753,5542,45754,453
2763,6102,51056,170
2783,6652,56257,860
2793,7212,61359,599
2803,7772,66361,474
2813,8532,71363,479
2823,9542,76465,590
2834,0362,81667,800
2854,0822,87170,114
2864,0972,92872,550
2874,1152,98675,138
2884,2063,04777,792
2894,6963,11080,534
2905,3653,17483,368
2915,6403,24086,229
2915,6883,30789,193
2925,6803,37592,209
2935,5623,44495,232
2945,3313,51298,320
2944,9863,582101,499
2954,8023,651104,767
2954,7133,696108,171

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.

All data sources

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

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