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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,075	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,405	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	11,828	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,380	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	12,829	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,178	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,540	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,917	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,309	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,722	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	15,152	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	15,600	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	16,064	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	16,563	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	17,072	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	17,575	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	18,094	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	18,621	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,157	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,698	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	20,242	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	20,788	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	21,336	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	21,889	20,985

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

Syria

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

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