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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,460	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,499	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	3,554	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	3,610	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	3,665	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,721	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,777	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,853	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,954	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,036	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,082	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,097	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,115	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	4,206	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	4,696	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,365	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,640	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,688	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,680	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,562	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,331	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	4,986	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	4,802	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	4,713	13,087

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