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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Lebanon	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	3,460	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	3,499	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	3,554	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	3,610	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	3,665	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	3,721	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	3,777	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	3,853	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	3,954	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	4,036	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	4,082	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	4,097	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	4,115	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	4,206	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	4,696	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	5,365	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	5,640	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	5,688	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	5,680	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	5,562	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	5,331	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	4,986	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	4,802	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	4,713	19,266

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.