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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	Albania	Türkiye	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,085	65,020	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,065	65,949	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,047	66,869	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,038	67,728	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,026	68,541	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,014	69,366	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,998	70,224	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,979	71,106	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,957	71,992	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,934	72,909	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,915	73,922	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,900	75,054	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,892	76,164	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,888	77,141	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,882	78,138	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,876	79,199	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,868	80,262	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,863	81,350	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,861	82,412	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,854	83,535	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,842	84,737	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,825	85,564	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,799	86,346	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,787	87,201	48,065

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.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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