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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	10,200

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.

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.