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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Liberia	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,741	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,847	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,917	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,978	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,983	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,005	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,138	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,311	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,469	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,603	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,708	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,817	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,984	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	4,141	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	4,244	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	4,348	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	4,460	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	4,576	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	4,689	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	4,810	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	4,904	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,005	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,109	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,216	2,748

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.

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