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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosBurkina FasoTürkiyeHonduras
27311,07565,0206,198
27411,40565,9496,367
27511,82866,8696,535
27612,38067,7286,698
27812,82968,5416,863
27913,17869,3667,028
28013,54070,2247,194
28113,91771,1067,359
28214,30971,9927,522
28314,72272,9097,682
28515,15273,9227,839
28615,60075,0547,991
28716,06476,1648,141
28816,56377,1418,288
28917,07278,1388,429
29017,57579,1998,546
29118,09480,2628,661
29118,62181,3508,770
29219,15782,4128,878
29319,69883,5359,002
29420,24284,7379,154
29420,78885,5649,304
29521,33686,3469,448
29521,88987,2019,590

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, Burkina Faso, Honduras; the database as a whole is cited above.