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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 RepublicLebanonCongo - Kinshasa
8,1753,46051,181
8,3013,49952,782
8,4273,55454,453
8,5533,61056,170
8,6783,66557,860
8,8013,72159,599
8,9243,77761,474
9,0443,85363,479
9,1643,95465,590
9,2814,03667,800
9,3984,08270,114
9,5124,09772,550
9,6274,11575,138
9,7424,20677,792
9,8554,69680,534
9,9655,36583,368
10,0725,64086,229
10,1775,68889,193
10,2815,68092,209
10,3855,56295,232
10,4875,33198,320
10,5874,986101,499
10,6864,802104,767
10,7934,713108,171

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.