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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Congo - Kinshasa	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	51,181	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	52,782	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	54,453	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	56,170	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	57,860	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	59,599	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	61,474	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	63,479	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	65,590	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	67,800	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	70,114	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	72,550	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	75,138	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	77,792	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	80,534	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	83,368	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	86,229	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	89,193	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	92,209	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	95,232	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	98,320	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	101,499	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	104,767	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	108,171	5,216

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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; the database as a whole is cited above.