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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 Dominican RepublicCongo - KinshasaLebanon
8,17551,1813,460
8,30152,7823,499
8,42754,4533,554
8,55356,1703,610
8,67857,8603,665
8,80159,5993,721
8,92461,4743,777
9,04463,4793,853
9,16465,5903,954
9,28167,8004,036
9,39870,1144,082
9,51272,5504,097
9,62775,1384,115
9,74277,7924,206
9,85580,5344,696
9,96583,3685,365
10,07286,2295,640
10,17789,1935,688
10,28192,2095,680
10,38595,2325,562
10,48798,3205,331
10,587101,4994,986
10,686104,7674,802
10,793108,1714,713

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