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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	2,059

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