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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lebanon	Congo - Kinshasa	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	3,460	51,181	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	3,499	52,782	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	3,554	54,453	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	3,610	56,170	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	3,665	57,860	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	3,721	59,599	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	3,777	61,474	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	3,853	63,479	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	3,954	65,590	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	4,036	67,800	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	4,082	70,114	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	4,097	72,550	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	4,115	75,138	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	4,206	77,792	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	4,696	80,534	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	5,365	83,368	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	5,640	86,229	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	5,688	89,193	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	5,680	92,209	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	5,562	95,232	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	5,331	98,320	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	4,986	101,499	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	4,802	104,767	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	4,713	108,171	7,432

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