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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Liberia	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,741	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,847	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,917	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,978	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,983	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,005	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,138	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,311	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,469	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,603	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,708	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,817	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,984	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	4,141	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	4,244	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	4,348	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	4,460	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	4,576	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	4,689	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	4,810	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	4,904	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,005	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,109	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,216	18,494

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, Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.