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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	Morocco
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	65,020	28,400
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	65,949	28,744
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	66,869	29,094
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	67,728	29,447
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	68,541	29,806
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	69,366	30,169
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	70,224	30,552
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	71,106	30,953
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	71,992	31,354
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	72,909	31,754
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	73,922	32,154
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	75,054	32,553
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	76,164	32,951
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	77,141	33,346
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	78,138	33,737
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	79,199	34,124
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	80,262	34,511
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	81,350	34,898
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	82,412	35,279
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	83,535	35,653
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	84,737	36,018
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	85,564	36,375
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	86,346	36,723
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	87,201	37,101

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.

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