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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Sudan	Congo - Kinshasa	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	26,168	51,181	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	26,771	52,782	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	27,387	54,453	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	28,017	56,170	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	28,662	57,860	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	29,321	59,599	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	29,996	61,474	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	30,686	63,479	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	31,393	65,590	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	32,137	67,800	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	33,078	70,114	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	33,891	72,550	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	34,568	75,138	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	35,293	77,792	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	36,093	80,534	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	37,058	83,368	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	38,165	86,229	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	39,294	89,193	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	40,512	92,209	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	41,764	95,232	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	42,952	98,320	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	44,121	101,499	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	45,290	104,767	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	46,498	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 Sudan, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.