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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	7,169

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