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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 - KinshasaLebanonThailand
51,1813,46059,748
52,7823,49960,165
54,4533,55460,746
56,1703,61061,323
57,8603,66561,884
59,5993,72162,425
61,4743,77762,956
63,4793,85363,467
65,5903,95463,937
67,8004,03664,381
70,1144,08264,804
72,5504,09765,208
75,1384,11565,599
77,7924,20665,970
80,5344,69666,332
83,3685,36566,673
86,2295,64066,975
89,1935,68867,250
92,2095,68067,506
95,2325,56267,750
98,3205,33167,975
101,4994,98668,180
104,7674,80268,366
108,1714,71368,457

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

Thailand

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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