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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	Burkina Faso	Türkiye	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,075	65,020	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,405	65,949	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,828	66,869	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,380	67,728	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	278	12,829	68,541	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,178	69,366	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,540	70,224	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,917	71,106	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,309	71,992	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,722	72,909	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	285	15,152	73,922	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	286	15,600	75,054	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,064	76,164	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,563	77,141	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	17,072	78,138	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	290	17,575	79,199	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,094	80,262	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	291	18,621	81,350	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,157	82,412	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,698	83,535	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	294	20,242	84,737	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	294	20,788	85,564	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	295	21,336	86,346	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	295	21,889	87,201	2,748

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