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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lebanon	Congo - Kinshasa	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	3,460	51,181	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	3,499	52,782	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	3,554	54,453	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	3,610	56,170	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	3,665	57,860	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	3,721	59,599	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	3,777	61,474	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	3,853	63,479	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	3,954	65,590	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	4,036	67,800	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	4,082	70,114	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	4,097	72,550	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	4,115	75,138	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	4,206	77,792	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	4,696	80,534	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	5,365	83,368	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	5,640	86,229	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	5,688	89,193	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	5,680	92,209	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	5,562	95,232	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	5,331	98,320	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	4,986	101,499	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	4,802	104,767	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	4,713	108,171	46,498

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