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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Brazil	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	174,320	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	176,902	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	179,389	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	181,721	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	183,970	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	186,165	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	188,330	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	190,438	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	192,450	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	194,458	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	196,464	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	198,408	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	200,152	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	201,894	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	203,614	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	205,358	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	207,148	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	208,859	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	210,537	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	212,258	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	213,940	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	215,577	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	216,720	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	217,718	5,216

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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.