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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lebanon	Congo - Kinshasa	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	3,460	51,181	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	3,499	52,782	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	3,554	54,453	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	3,610	56,170	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	3,665	57,860	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	3,721	59,599	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	3,777	61,474	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	3,853	63,479	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	3,954	65,590	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	4,036	67,800	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	4,082	70,114	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	4,097	72,550	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	4,115	75,138	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	4,206	77,792	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	4,696	80,534	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	5,365	83,368	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	5,640	86,229	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	5,688	89,193	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	5,680	92,209	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	5,562	95,232	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	5,331	98,320	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	4,986	101,499	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	4,802	104,767	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	4,713	108,171	5,042

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, Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.