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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Estonia	Congo - Kinshasa	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	1,378	51,181	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	1,400	52,782	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	1,391	54,453	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	1,382	56,170	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	1,374	57,860	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	1,365	59,599	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	1,357	61,474	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	1,349	63,479	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	1,341	65,590	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	1,337	67,800	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	1,334	70,114	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	1,332	72,550	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	1,328	75,138	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	1,324	77,792	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	1,319	80,534	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	1,314	83,368	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	1,312	86,229	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	1,314	89,193	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	1,314	92,209	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	1,318	95,232	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	1,323	98,320	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	1,327	101,499	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	1,329	104,767	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	1,330	108,171	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 Estonia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.