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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Türkiye	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	65,020	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	65,949	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	66,869	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	67,728	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	68,541	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	69,366	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	70,224	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	71,106	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	71,992	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	72,909	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	73,922	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	75,054	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	76,164	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,141	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	78,138	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	79,199	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	80,262	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	81,350	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	82,412	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	83,535	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	84,737	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	85,564	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	86,346	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	87,201	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.

All data sources

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.

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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