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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	Barbados	Afghanistan	Türkiye	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,206	65,020	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,461	65,949	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,507	66,869	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	276	23,600	67,728	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	278	25,005	68,541	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,698	69,366	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,335	70,224	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	281	27,154	71,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	282	27,387	71,992	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,706	72,909	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,484	73,922	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	286	29,121	75,054	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,758	76,164	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	288	30,420	77,141	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	289	31,108	78,138	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	290	31,823	79,199	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	291	32,564	80,262	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	291	33,332	81,350	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	292	34,125	82,412	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	293	34,941	83,535	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	294	35,972	84,737	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	294	37,034	85,564	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,127	86,346	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	295	39,252	87,201	3,570

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.

All data sources

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

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Afghanistan, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.