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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lebanon	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	3,460	51,181	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	3,499	52,782	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	3,554	54,453	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	3,610	56,170	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	3,665	57,860	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	3,721	59,599	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	3,777	61,474	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	3,853	63,479	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	3,954	65,590	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	4,036	67,800	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	4,082	70,114	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	4,097	72,550	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	4,115	75,138	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	4,206	77,792	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	4,696	80,534	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	5,365	83,368	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	5,640	86,229	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	5,688	89,193	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	5,680	92,209	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	5,562	95,232	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	5,331	98,320	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	4,986	101,499	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	4,802	104,767	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	4,713	108,171	2,787

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