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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	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,378	65,020	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,400	65,949	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,391	66,869	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,382	67,728	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,374	68,541	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,365	69,366	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,357	70,224	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,349	71,106	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,341	71,992	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,337	72,909	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,334	73,922	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,332	75,054	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,328	76,164	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,324	77,141	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,319	78,138	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,314	79,199	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,312	80,262	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,314	81,350	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,314	82,412	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,318	83,535	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,323	84,737	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,327	85,564	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,329	86,346	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,330	87,201	83,811

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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