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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 BarbadosSeychellesCongo - KinshasaLebanon
2737851,1813,460
2747952,7823,499
2758054,4533,554
2768156,1703,610
2788257,8603,665
2798359,5993,721
2808461,4743,777
2818563,4793,853
2828665,5903,954
2838767,8004,036
2858770,1144,082
2868872,5504,097
2878975,1384,115
2889077,7924,206
2899180,5344,696
2909283,3685,365
2919286,2295,640
2919389,1935,688
2929492,2095,680
2939595,2325,562
2949698,3205,331
29497101,4994,986
29598104,7674,802
29598108,1714,713

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

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