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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	6,910

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.