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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Syria	Albania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	15,930	3,085	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	16,329	3,065	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	16,730	3,047	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	17,132	3,038	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	17,534	3,026	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	17,942	3,014	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	18,423	2,998	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	19,252	2,979	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	20,493	2,957	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	21,221	2,934	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	21,542	2,915	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	22,050	2,900	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	22,458	2,892	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	22,258	2,888	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	20,901	2,882	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	19,318	2,876	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	18,272	2,868	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	17,669	2,863	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	17,327	2,861	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	17,601	2,854	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	18,440	2,842	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	19,241	2,825	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	20,226	2,799	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	20,985	2,787	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 Albania, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.