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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 - KinshasaHondurasLebanon
51,1816,1983,460
52,7826,3673,499
54,4536,5353,554
56,1706,6983,610
57,8606,8633,665
59,5997,0283,721
61,4747,1943,777
63,4797,3593,853
65,5907,5223,954
67,8007,6824,036
70,1147,8394,082
72,5507,9914,097
75,1388,1414,115
77,7928,2884,206
80,5348,4294,696
83,3688,5465,365
86,2298,6615,640
89,1938,7705,688
92,2098,8785,680
95,2329,0025,562
98,3209,1545,331
101,4999,3044,986
104,7679,4484,802
108,1719,5904,713

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, Honduras; the database as a whole is cited above.