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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,460	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,499	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	3,554	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	3,610	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	3,665	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,721	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,777	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,853	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,954	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,036	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,082	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,097	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,115	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	4,206	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	4,696	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,365	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,640	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,688	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,680	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,562	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,331	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	4,986	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	4,802	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	4,713	31,845

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