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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	Germany	Türkiye	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	81,439	65,020	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,474	65,949	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	81,534	66,869	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	81,595	67,728	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	81,566	68,541	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	81,473	69,366	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	81,354	70,224	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	81,190	71,106	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	81,009	71,992	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	80,781	72,909	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	80,500	73,922	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	80,301	75,054	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	80,292	76,164	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	80,443	77,141	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,663	78,138	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	81,000	79,199	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	81,704	80,262	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	82,366	81,350	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,674	82,412	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	82,923	83,535	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	83,110	84,737	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	83,178	85,564	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	83,213	86,346	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	83,811	87,201	7,666

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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