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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	108,171	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

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 Central African Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.