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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Syria	Albania	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	15,930	3,085	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	16,329	3,065	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	16,730	3,047	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	17,132	3,038	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	17,534	3,026	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	17,942	3,014	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	18,423	2,998	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	19,252	2,979	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	20,493	2,957	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	21,221	2,934	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	21,542	2,915	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	22,050	2,900	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	22,458	2,892	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	22,258	2,888	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	20,901	2,882	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	19,318	2,876	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	18,272	2,868	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	17,669	2,863	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	17,327	2,861	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	17,601	2,854	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	18,440	2,842	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	19,241	2,825	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	20,226	2,799	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	20,985	2,787	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 Albania, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.