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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 - KinshasaLebanonIndonesia
51,1813,460208,105
52,7823,499211,408
54,4533,554214,475
56,1703,610217,516
57,8603,665220,549
59,5993,721224,473
61,4743,777227,534
63,4793,853230,739
65,5903,954233,918
67,8004,036237,056
70,1144,082240,140
72,5504,097243,171
75,1384,115246,150
77,7924,206249,086
80,5344,696251,947
83,3685,365254,702
86,2295,640257,351
89,1935,688259,906
92,2095,680262,379
95,2325,562264,789
98,3205,331267,142
101,4994,986269,437
104,7674,802271,674
108,1714,713273,409

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

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

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