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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 - KinshasaNorwayLebanon
51,1814,4633,460
52,7824,4923,499
54,4534,5153,554
56,1704,5393,610
57,8604,5663,665
59,5994,5933,721
61,4744,6243,777
63,4794,6623,853
65,5904,7103,954
67,8004,7694,036
70,1144,8304,082
72,5504,8904,097
75,1384,9544,115
77,7925,0204,206
80,5345,0814,696
83,3685,1385,365
86,2295,1915,640
89,1935,2375,688
92,2095,2785,680
95,2325,3135,562
98,3205,3495,331
101,4995,3804,986
104,7675,4094,802
108,1715,4584,713

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

Norway

  • 1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
  • 1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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.