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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date LebanonThailandCongo - Kinshasa
3,46059,74851,181
3,49960,16552,782
3,55460,74654,453
3,61061,32356,170
3,66561,88457,860
3,72162,42559,599
3,77762,95661,474
3,85363,46763,479
3,95463,93765,590
4,03664,38167,800
4,08264,80470,114
4,09765,20872,550
4,11565,59975,138
4,20665,97077,792
4,69666,33280,534
5,36566,67383,368
5,64066,97586,229
5,68867,25089,193
5,68067,50692,209
5,56267,75095,232
5,33167,97598,320
4,98668,180101,499
4,80268,366104,767
4,71368,457108,171

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

Thailand

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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