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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Haiti
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	8,121
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	8,279
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	8,430
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	8,580
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	8,739
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	8,900
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	9,061
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	9,216
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	9,364
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	9,508
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	9,652
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	9,553
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	9,670
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	9,793
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	9,922
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	10,047
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	10,254
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	10,486
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	10,647
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	10,788
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	10,933
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	11,077
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	11,215
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	11,349

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