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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 - KinshasaLebanonParaguay
51,1813,4605,366
52,7823,4995,473
54,4533,5545,579
56,1703,6105,683
57,8603,6655,786
59,5993,7215,886
61,4743,7775,984
63,4793,8536,080
65,5903,9546,173
67,8004,0366,264
70,1144,0826,352
72,5504,0976,438
75,1384,1156,522
77,7924,2066,605
80,5344,6966,688
83,3685,3656,769
86,2295,6406,850
89,1935,6886,930
92,2095,6807,012
95,2325,5627,095
98,3205,3317,179
101,4994,9867,263
104,7674,8027,348
108,1714,7137,432

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