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

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