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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.