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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	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.

All data sources

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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.