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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	5,556

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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