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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 - KinshasaIsraelLebanon
51,1815,9273,460
52,7826,0883,499
54,4536,2363,554
56,1706,3663,610
57,8606,4843,665
59,5996,6033,721
61,4746,7233,777
63,4796,8463,853
65,5906,9723,954
67,8007,1004,036
70,1147,2264,082
72,5507,3604,097
75,1387,4984,115
77,7927,6374,206
80,5347,7814,696
83,3687,9315,365
86,2298,0915,640
89,1938,2515,688
92,2098,4125,680
95,2328,5765,562
98,3208,7425,331
101,4998,8994,986
104,7679,0474,802
108,1719,1884,713

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

Israel

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

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.