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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	Denmark	Türkiye	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,322	65,020	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,339	65,949	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,358	66,869	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,377	67,728	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,391	68,541	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,404	69,366	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,420	70,224	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,438	71,106	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	5,461	71,992	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	5,494	72,909	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	5,524	73,922	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	5,548	75,054	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	5,571	76,164	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,592	77,141	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,614	78,138	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,644	79,199	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,683	80,262	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,730	81,350	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,766	82,412	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,795	83,535	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,818	84,737	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,831	85,564	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,855	86,346	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,907	87,201	68,457

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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