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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Syria	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	15,930	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	16,329	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	16,730	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	17,132	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	17,534	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	17,942	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	18,423	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	19,252	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	20,493	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	21,221	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	21,542	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	22,050	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	22,458	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	22,258	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	20,901	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	19,318	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	18,272	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	17,669	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	17,327	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	17,601	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	18,440	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	19,241	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	20,226	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	20,985	108,171

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 Dominican Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.