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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Syria	Albania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	15,930	3,085	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	16,329	3,065	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	16,730	3,047	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	17,132	3,038	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	17,534	3,026	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	17,942	3,014	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	18,423	2,998	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	19,252	2,979	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	20,493	2,957	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	21,221	2,934	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	21,542	2,915	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	22,050	2,900	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	22,458	2,892	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	22,258	2,888	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	20,901	2,882	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	19,318	2,876	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	18,272	2,868	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	17,669	2,863	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	17,327	2,861	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	17,601	2,854	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	18,440	2,842	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	19,241	2,825	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	20,226	2,799	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	20,985	2,787	7,666

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