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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosEstoniaTürkiyeUnited Arab Emirates
2731,37865,0203,101
2741,40065,9493,284
2751,39166,8693,458
2761,38267,7283,613
2781,37468,5413,754
2791,36569,3663,882
2801,35770,2244,000
2811,34971,1064,532
2821,34171,9925,623
2831,33772,9097,277
2851,33473,9228,164
2861,33275,0548,152
2871,32876,1648,438
2881,32477,1418,747
2891,31978,1389,077
2901,31479,1999,321
2911,31280,2629,461
2911,31481,3509,587
2921,31482,4129,699
2931,31883,5359,796
2941,32384,7379,879
2941,32785,5649,953
2951,32986,34610,018
2951,33087,20110,099

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