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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	19,715

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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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