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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date OmanLiberiaCongo - Kinshasa
2,3482,74151,181
2,4032,84752,782
2,4572,91754,453
2,5102,97856,170
2,5622,98357,860
2,6133,00559,599
2,6633,13861,474
2,7133,31163,479
2,7643,46965,590
2,8163,60367,800
2,8713,70870,114
2,9283,81772,550
2,9863,98475,138
3,0474,14177,792
3,1104,24480,534
3,1744,34883,368
3,2404,46086,229
3,3074,57689,193
3,3754,68992,209
3,4444,81095,232
3,5124,90498,320
3,5825,005101,499
3,6515,109104,767
3,6965,216108,171

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.

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