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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	Dominica	Türkiye	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	65,020	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	65,949	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	66,869	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	67,728	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	68,541	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	69,366	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	70,224	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	71,106	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	71,992	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	72,909	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	73,922	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	75,054	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	76,164	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	77,141	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	78,138	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	79,199	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	80,262	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	81,350	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	82,412	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	83,535	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	84,737	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	85,564	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	86,346	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	87,201	1,330

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, Dominica, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.