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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Laos	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,286	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	5,397	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	5,499	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	5,578	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	5,654	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	5,746	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	5,836	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	5,931	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	6,035	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	6,145	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	6,257	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	6,368	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	6,477	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	6,586	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	6,695	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	6,804	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	6,912	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	7,019	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	7,127	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	7,234	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	7,343	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	7,452	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	7,560	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	7,666	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, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.