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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Guinea	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	7,610	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	7,780	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	7,821	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	7,906	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	8,121	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	8,317	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	8,478	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	8,650	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	8,860	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	9,091	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	9,327	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	9,571	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	9,825	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	10,084	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	10,351	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	10,632	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	10,924	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	11,225	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	11,534	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	11,855	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	12,160	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	12,469	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	12,778	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	13,087	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 Guinea, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.