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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	124,762

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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