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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 - KinshasaIndonesiaLebanon
51,181208,1053,460
52,782211,4083,499
54,453214,4753,554
56,170217,5163,610
57,860220,5493,665
59,599224,4733,721
61,474227,5343,777
63,479230,7393,853
65,590233,9183,954
67,800237,0564,036
70,114240,1404,082
72,550243,1714,097
75,138246,1504,115
77,792249,0864,206
80,534251,9474,696
83,368254,7025,365
86,229257,3515,640
89,193259,9065,688
92,209262,3795,680
95,232264,7895,562
98,320267,1425,331
101,499269,4374,986
104,767271,6744,802
108,171273,4094,713

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

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.