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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	47,625

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.

Spain

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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