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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 MoroccoCongo - KinshasaLebanon
28,40051,1813,460
28,74452,7823,499
29,09454,4533,554
29,44756,1703,610
29,80657,8603,665
30,16959,5993,721
30,55261,4743,777
30,95363,4793,853
31,35465,5903,954
31,75467,8004,036
32,15470,1144,082
32,55372,5504,097
32,95175,1384,115
33,34677,7924,206
33,73780,5344,696
34,12483,3685,365
34,51186,2295,640
34,89889,1935,688
35,27992,2095,680
35,65395,2325,562
36,01898,3205,331
36,375101,4994,986
36,723104,7674,802
37,101108,1714,713

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 Morocco, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.