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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 BarbadosCongo - KinshasaTürkiyeLithuania
27351,18165,0203,419
27452,78265,9493,395
27554,45366,8693,367
27656,17067,7283,340
27857,86068,5413,313
27959,59969,3663,276
28061,47470,2243,223
28163,47971,1063,172
28265,59071,9923,134
28367,80072,9093,102
28570,11473,9223,068
28672,55075,0543,004
28775,13876,1642,937
28877,79277,1412,898
28980,53478,1382,869
29083,36879,1992,844
29186,22980,2622,818
29189,19381,3502,782
29292,20982,4122,744
29395,23283,5352,718
29498,32084,7372,710
294101,49985,5642,711
295104,76786,3462,724
295108,17187,2012,748

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