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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	1,883

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