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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Syria	Romania	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	15,930	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	16,329	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	16,730	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	17,132	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	17,534	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	17,942	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	18,423	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	19,252	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	20,493	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	21,221	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	21,542	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	22,050	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	22,458	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	22,258	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	20,901	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	19,318	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	18,272	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	17,669	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	17,327	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	17,601	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	18,440	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	19,241	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	20,226	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	20,985	19,266	2,559

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.

No separate list is published for Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.