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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mauritania	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	2,437	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	2,501	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	2,566	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	2,632	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	2,699	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	2,768	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	2,838	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	2,909	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	2,981	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	3,055	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	3,129	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	3,205	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	3,282	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	3,359	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	3,438	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	3,517	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	3,597	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	3,677	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	3,759	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	3,840	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	3,942	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	4,045	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	4,150	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	4,259	108,171	4,713

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