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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	51,181	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	52,782	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	54,453	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	56,170	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	57,860	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	59,599	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	61,474	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	63,479	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	65,590	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	67,800	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	70,114	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	72,550	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	75,138	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	77,792	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	80,534	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	83,368	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	86,229	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	89,193	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	92,209	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	95,232	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	98,320	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	101,499	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	104,767	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	108,171	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.

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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.