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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Syria	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	15,930	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	16,329	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	16,730	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	17,132	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	17,534	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	17,942	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	18,423	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	19,252	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	20,493	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	21,221	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	21,542	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	22,050	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	22,458	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	22,258	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	20,901	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	19,318	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	18,272	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	17,669	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	17,327	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	17,601	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	18,440	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	19,241	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	20,226	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	20,985	46,498

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