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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lebanon	Congo - Kinshasa	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	3,460	51,181	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	3,499	52,782	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	3,554	54,453	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	3,610	56,170	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	3,665	57,860	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	3,721	59,599	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	3,777	61,474	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	3,853	63,479	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	3,954	65,590	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	4,036	67,800	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	4,082	70,114	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	4,097	72,550	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	4,115	75,138	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	4,206	77,792	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	4,696	80,534	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	5,365	83,368	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	5,640	86,229	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	5,688	89,193	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	5,680	92,209	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	5,562	95,232	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	5,331	98,320	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	4,986	101,499	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	4,802	104,767	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	4,713	108,171	18,494

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, Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.