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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	20,985

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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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