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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Lebanon	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	78	3,460	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	79	3,499	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	80	3,554	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	81	3,610	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	82	3,665	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	83	3,721	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	84	3,777	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	85	3,853	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	86	3,954	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	87	4,036	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	87	4,082	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	88	4,097	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	89	4,115	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	90	4,206	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	91	4,696	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	92	5,365	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	92	5,640	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	93	5,688	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	94	5,680	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	95	5,562	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	96	5,331	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	97	4,986	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	98	4,802	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	98	4,713	3,570

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 Seychelles, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.