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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.

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.