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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	France
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	68,387

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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