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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	Lebanon	Türkiye	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,460	65,020	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,499	65,949	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,554	66,869	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,610	67,728	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,665	68,541	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,721	69,366	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,777	70,224	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,853	71,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,954	71,992	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,036	72,909	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,082	73,922	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,097	75,054	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,115	76,164	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,206	77,141	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,696	78,138	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,365	79,199	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,640	80,262	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,688	81,350	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,680	82,412	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,562	83,535	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,331	84,737	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,986	85,564	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	295	4,802	86,346	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	295	4,713	87,201	3,570

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

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.