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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Haiti	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	8,121	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	8,279	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	8,430	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	8,580	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	8,739	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	8,900	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	9,061	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	9,216	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	9,364	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	9,508	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	9,652	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	9,553	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	9,670	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	9,793	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	9,922	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	10,047	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	10,254	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	10,486	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	10,647	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	10,788	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	10,933	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	11,077	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	11,215	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	11,349	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 Haiti, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.