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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 BarbadosCentral African RepublicTürkiyeSudan
2733,88965,02026,168
2743,98065,94926,771
2754,05466,86927,387
2764,12867,72828,017
2784,21568,54128,662
2794,28969,36629,321
2804,36370,22429,996
2814,44971,10630,686
2824,54471,99231,393
2834,64172,90932,137
2854,74273,92233,078
2864,84575,05433,891
2874,95076,16434,568
2885,05777,14135,293
2895,16778,13836,093
2905,27879,19937,058
2915,39280,26238,165
2915,50781,35039,294
2925,62582,41240,512
2935,74583,53541,764
2945,87484,73742,952
2946,02585,56444,121
2956,15486,34645,290
2956,29187,20146,498

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, Central African Republic, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.