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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	Ecuador	Türkiye	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	65,020	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	65,949	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	66,869	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	67,728	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	68,541	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	69,366	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	70,224	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	71,106	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	71,992	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	72,909	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	73,922	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	75,054	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	76,164	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	77,141	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	78,138	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	79,199	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	80,262	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	81,350	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	82,412	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	83,535	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	84,737	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	85,564	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	86,346	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	87,201	5,907

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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