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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	2,787

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