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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	Poland	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	38,358	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	38,344	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	38,339	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	38,320	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	38,283	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	38,268	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	38,249	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	38,220	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	38,204	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	38,204	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	38,572	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	38,606	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	38,615	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	38,623	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	38,591	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	38,573	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	38,544	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	38,516	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	38,511	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	38,502	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	38,475	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	38,443	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	38,250	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	37,914	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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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.