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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Lebanon	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	3,460	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	3,499	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	3,554	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	3,610	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	3,665	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	3,721	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	3,777	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	3,853	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	3,954	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	4,036	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	4,082	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	4,097	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	4,115	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	4,206	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	4,696	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	5,365	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	5,640	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	5,688	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	5,680	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	5,562	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	5,331	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	4,986	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	4,802	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	4,713	2,787

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.