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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Paraguay	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	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 Paraguay, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.