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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.