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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Syria	Romania	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	15,930	22,414	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	16,329	22,262	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	16,730	22,106	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	17,132	21,931	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	17,534	21,828	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	17,942	21,704	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	18,423	21,571	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	19,252	21,443	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	20,493	21,129	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	21,221	20,779	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	21,542	20,607	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	22,050	20,485	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	22,458	20,385	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	22,258	20,296	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	20,901	20,224	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	19,318	20,151	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	18,272	20,055	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	17,669	19,938	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	17,327	19,823	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	17,601	19,713	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	18,440	19,622	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	19,241	19,496	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	20,226	19,351	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	20,985	19,266	31,058

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.