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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	Sweden
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,075	65,020	8,858
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,405	65,949	8,872
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,828	66,869	8,896
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,380	67,728	8,925
Dec 31, 2003	278	12,829	68,541	8,958
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,178	69,366	8,994
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,540	70,224	9,030
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,917	71,106	9,081
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,309	71,992	9,148
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,722	72,909	9,220
Dec 31, 2009	285	15,152	73,922	9,299
Dec 31, 2010	286	15,600	75,054	9,378
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,064	76,164	9,449
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,563	77,141	9,519
Dec 31, 2013	289	17,072	78,138	9,600
Dec 31, 2014	290	17,575	79,199	9,696
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,094	80,262	9,799
Dec 31, 2016	291	18,621	81,350	9,923
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,157	82,412	10,058
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,698	83,535	10,175
Dec 31, 2019	294	20,242	84,737	10,279
Dec 31, 2020	294	20,788	85,564	10,354
Dec 31, 2021	295	21,336	86,346	10,416
Dec 31, 2022	295	21,889	87,201	10,487

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.

Sweden

1300–1560: Krantz, O. (2017) “Swedish GDP 1300-1560 A Tentative Estimate” Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues; No. 152.
1560–1950: Schön, L., and O. Krantz (2015) “New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices” Lund Papers in Economic History no. 140

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