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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	Belgium	Türkiye	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	65,020	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	65,949	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	66,869	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	67,728	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	68,541	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	69,366	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	70,224	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	71,106	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	71,992	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	72,909	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	73,922	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	75,054	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	76,164	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	77,141	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	78,138	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	79,199	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	80,262	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	81,350	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	82,412	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	83,535	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	84,737	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	85,564	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	86,346	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	87,201	1,330

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

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.