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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	Chile	Albania	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,140	3,085	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,340	3,065	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	15,513	3,047	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	15,686	3,038	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	15,859	3,026	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	16,029	3,014	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	16,222	2,998	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	16,364	2,979	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	16,536	2,957	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	16,700	2,934	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	16,864	2,915	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	16,999	2,900	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	17,189	2,892	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	17,378	2,888	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	17,545	2,882	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	17,720	2,876	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	17,904	2,868	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	18,099	2,863	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	18,350	2,861	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	18,681	2,854	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,035	2,842	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,385	2,825	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,604	2,799	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,715	2,787	87,201

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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