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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaSyriaParaguay
51,18115,9305,366
52,78216,3295,473
54,45316,7305,579
56,17017,1325,683
57,86017,5345,786
59,59917,9425,886
61,47418,4235,984
63,47919,2526,080
65,59020,4936,173
67,80021,2216,264
70,11421,5426,352
72,55022,0506,438
75,13822,4586,522
77,79222,2586,605
80,53420,9016,688
83,36819,3186,769
86,22918,2726,850
89,19317,6696,930
92,20917,3277,012
95,23217,6017,095
98,32018,4407,179
101,49919,2417,263
104,76720,2267,348
108,17120,9857,432

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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.