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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Liberia	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,741	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,847	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,917	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,978	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,983	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,005	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,138	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,311	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,469	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,603	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,708	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,817	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,984	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	4,141	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	4,244	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	4,348	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	4,460	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	4,576	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	4,689	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	4,810	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	4,904	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,005	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,109	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,216	4,713

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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.