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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date TunisiaCongo - KinshasaSyria
9,41751,18115,930
9,51452,78216,329
9,61354,45316,730
9,71156,17017,132
9,81057,86017,534
9,90659,59917,942
9,99761,47418,423
10,08763,47919,252
10,17865,59020,493
10,27467,80021,221
10,37770,11421,542
10,49172,55022,050
10,61275,13822,458
10,73777,79222,258
10,86680,53420,901
10,99683,36819,318
11,12486,22918,272
11,24889,19317,669
11,36592,20917,327
11,47795,23217,601
11,58398,32018,440
11,681101,49919,241
11,772104,76720,226
11,862108,17120,985

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 Tunisia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.