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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Syria	Romania	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	15,930	22,414	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	16,329	22,262	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	16,730	22,106	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	17,132	21,931	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	17,534	21,828	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	17,942	21,704	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	18,423	21,571	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	19,252	21,443	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	20,493	21,129	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	21,221	20,779	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	21,542	20,607	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	22,050	20,485	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	22,458	20,385	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	22,258	20,296	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	20,901	20,224	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	19,318	20,151	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	18,272	20,055	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	17,669	19,938	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	17,327	19,823	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	17,601	19,713	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	18,440	19,622	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	19,241	19,496	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	20,226	19,351	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	20,985	19,266	38,685

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.