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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ghana	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,327	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	19,792	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,280	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	20,806	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,350	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,900	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	22,469	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,058	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,661	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	24,270	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,899	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	25,559	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	26,244	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	26,945	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	27,664	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	28,405	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,146	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,879	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	30,617	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,362	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	32,111	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,864	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,622	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,280	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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.