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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lebanon	Switzerland	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	3,460	7,258	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	3,499	7,296	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	3,554	7,332	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	3,610	7,384	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	3,665	7,438	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	3,721	7,488	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	3,777	7,532	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	3,853	7,579	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	3,954	7,647	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	4,036	7,738	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	4,082	7,825	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	4,097	7,884	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	4,115	7,959	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	4,206	8,044	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	4,696	8,137	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	5,365	8,237	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	5,640	8,332	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	5,688	8,423	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	5,680	8,502	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	5,562	8,565	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	5,331	8,626	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	4,986	8,689	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	4,802	8,756	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	4,713	8,834	108,171

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

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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