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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date OmanLebanonCongo - Kinshasa
2,3483,46051,181
2,4033,49952,782
2,4573,55454,453
2,5103,61056,170
2,5623,66557,860
2,6133,72159,599
2,6633,77761,474
2,7133,85363,479
2,7643,95465,590
2,8164,03667,800
2,8714,08270,114
2,9284,09772,550
2,9864,11575,138
3,0474,20677,792
3,1104,69680,534
3,1745,36583,368
3,2405,64086,229
3,3075,68889,193
3,3755,68092,209
3,4445,56295,232
3,5125,33198,320
3,5824,986101,499
3,6514,802104,767
3,6964,713108,171

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

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