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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Liberia	United States
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,741	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,847	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,917	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,978	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,983	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,005	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,138	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,311	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,469	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,603	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,708	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,817	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,984	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	4,141	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	4,244	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	4,348	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	4,460	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	4,576	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	4,689	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	4,810	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	4,904	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,005	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,109	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,216	333,288

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.

All data sources

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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