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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Liberia	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,741	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,847	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,917	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,978	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,983	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,005	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,138	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,311	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,469	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,603	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,708	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,817	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,984	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	4,141	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	4,244	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	4,348	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	4,460	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	4,576	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	4,689	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	4,810	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	4,904	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,005	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,109	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,216	38,685

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

Liberia

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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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