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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	Türkiye	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	65,020	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	65,949	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	66,869	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	67,728	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	68,541	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	69,366	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	70,224	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	71,106	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	71,992	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	72,909	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	73,922	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	75,054	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	76,164	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	77,141	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	78,138	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	79,199	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	80,262	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	81,350	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	82,412	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	83,535	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	84,737	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	85,564	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	86,346	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	87,201	5,216

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.

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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.