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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 - KinshasaLebanonColombia
51,1813,46038,365
52,7823,49938,911
54,4533,55439,411
56,1703,61039,918
57,8603,66540,416
59,5993,72140,899
61,4743,77741,374
63,4793,85341,862
65,5903,95442,324
67,8004,03642,781
70,1144,08243,264
72,5504,09743,771
75,1384,11544,225
77,7924,20644,660
80,5344,69645,081
83,3685,36545,846
86,2295,64046,290
89,1935,68846,796
92,2095,68047,385
95,2325,56248,222
98,3205,33149,326
101,4994,98650,283
104,7674,80250,978
108,1714,71351,332

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

Colombia

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
  • 1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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