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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date LebanonCongo - KinshasaPoland
3,46051,18138,358
3,49952,78238,344
3,55454,45338,339
3,61056,17038,320
3,66557,86038,283
3,72159,59938,268
3,77761,47438,249
3,85363,47938,220
3,95465,59038,204
4,03667,80038,204
4,08270,11438,572
4,09772,55038,606
4,11575,13838,615
4,20677,79238,623
4,69680,53438,591
5,36583,36838,573
5,64086,22938,544
5,68889,19338,516
5,68092,20938,511
5,56295,23238,502
5,33198,32038,475
4,986101,49938,443
4,802104,76738,250
4,713108,17137,914

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

Poland

  • 1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
  • 1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
  • 1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.