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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	Iceland	Japan	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	126,512	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	126,755	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	127,056	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	127,324	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	127,558	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	127,658	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	127,679	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	127,762	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	127,904	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	127,969	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	127,958	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	127,967	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	127,755	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	127,476	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	127,257	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	127,186	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	127,034	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	126,857	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	126,631	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	126,368	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	126,092	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	125,634	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	125,427	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	124,762	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.

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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.