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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Venezuela	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	23,188	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	23,601	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	24,011	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	24,425	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	24,841	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	25,255	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	25,667	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	26,079	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	26,589	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	27,098	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	27,510	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	27,920	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	28,327	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	28,722	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	29,111	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	29,418	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	29,693	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	29,961	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	29,856	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	28,858	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	27,921	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	27,871	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	28,316	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	28,418	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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.