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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 - KinshasaLebanonSwitzerland
51,1813,4607,258
52,7823,4997,296
54,4533,5547,332
56,1703,6107,384
57,8603,6657,438
59,5993,7217,488
61,4743,7777,532
63,4793,8537,579
65,5903,9547,647
67,8004,0367,738
70,1144,0827,825
72,5504,0977,884
75,1384,1157,959
77,7924,2068,044
80,5344,6968,137
83,3685,3658,237
86,2295,6408,332
89,1935,6888,423
92,2095,6808,502
95,2325,5628,565
98,3205,3318,626
101,4994,9868,689
104,7674,8028,756
108,1714,7138,834

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

Switzerland

  • 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
  • 1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.