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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	3,228

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.