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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chile	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	15,140	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	15,340	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	15,513	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	15,686	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	15,859	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	16,029	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	16,222	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	16,364	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	16,536	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	16,700	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	16,864	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	16,999	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	17,189	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	17,378	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	17,545	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	17,720	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	17,904	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	18,099	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	18,350	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	18,681	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	19,035	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	19,385	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	19,604	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	19,715	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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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