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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	23,796

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, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.