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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 - KinshasaLebanonRomania
51,1813,46022,414
52,7823,49922,262
54,4533,55422,106
56,1703,61021,931
57,8603,66521,828
59,5993,72121,704
61,4743,77721,571
63,4793,85321,443
65,5903,95421,129
67,8004,03620,779
70,1144,08220,607
72,5504,09720,485
75,1384,11520,385
77,7924,20620,296
80,5344,69620,224
83,3685,36520,151
86,2295,64020,055
89,1935,68819,938
92,2095,68019,823
95,2325,56219,713
98,3205,33119,622
101,4994,98619,496
104,7674,80219,351
108,1714,71319,266

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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