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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Syria	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	15,930	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	16,329	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	16,730	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	17,132	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	17,534	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	17,942	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	18,423	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	19,252	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	20,493	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	21,221	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	21,542	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	22,050	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	22,458	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	22,258	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	20,901	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	19,318	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	18,272	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	17,669	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	17,327	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	17,601	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	18,440	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	19,241	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	20,226	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	20,985	3,228

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 Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.