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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	Guinea	Türkiye	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,610	65,020	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,780	65,949	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,821	66,869	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,906	67,728	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,121	68,541	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,317	69,366	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,478	70,224	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,650	71,106	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,860	71,992	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,091	72,909	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,327	73,922	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,571	75,054	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,825	76,164	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,084	77,141	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,351	78,138	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,632	79,199	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,924	80,262	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,225	81,350	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,534	82,412	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,855	83,535	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	294	12,160	84,737	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	294	12,469	85,564	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	295	12,778	86,346	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	295	13,087	87,201	21,889

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, Guinea, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.