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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	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	65,020	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	65,949	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	66,869	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	67,728	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	68,541	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	69,366	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	70,224	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	71,106	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	71,992	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	72,909	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	73,922	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	75,054	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	76,164	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	77,141	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	78,138	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	79,199	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	80,262	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	81,350	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	82,412	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	83,535	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	84,737	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	85,564	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	86,346	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	87,201	10,200

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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