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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date TurkmenistanLebanonCongo - Kinshasa
4,3243,46051,181
4,3853,49952,782
4,4443,55454,453
4,5023,61056,170
4,5563,66557,860
4,6083,72159,599
4,6643,77761,474
4,7193,85363,479
4,7733,95465,590
4,8284,03667,800
4,8844,08270,114
4,9404,09772,550
4,9964,11575,138
5,0534,20677,792
5,1104,69680,534
5,1695,36583,368
5,2275,64086,229
5,2875,68889,193
5,3465,68092,209
5,4055,56295,232
5,4645,33198,320
5,5224,986101,499
5,5794,802104,767
5,6574,713108,171

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