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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.