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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 Congo - KinshasaAzerbaijanLebanon
51,1818,0563,460
52,7828,1273,499
54,4538,1943,554
56,1708,2573,610
57,8608,3193,665
59,5998,3913,721
61,4748,4753,777
63,4798,5653,853
65,5908,6573,954
67,8008,7504,036
70,1148,8424,082
72,5508,9334,097
75,1389,0254,115
77,7929,1174,206
80,5349,2104,696
83,3689,3025,365
86,2299,3935,640
89,1939,4815,688
92,2099,5675,680
95,2329,6495,562
98,3209,7275,331
101,4999,8024,986
104,7679,8744,802
108,1719,9184,713

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