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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Hong Kong SAR China	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	6,587	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	6,646	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	6,695	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	6,725	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	6,712	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	6,765	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	6,794	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	6,838	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,897	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,938	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,953	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,004	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,052	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	7,130	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,159	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	7,209	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	7,271	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,316	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	7,372	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	7,432	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	7,487	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	7,460	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	7,392	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	7,387	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, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.