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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	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

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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