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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	St. Lucia	Romania	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	152	22,414	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	153	22,262	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	154	22,106	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	155	21,931	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	156	21,828	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	157	21,704	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	157	21,571	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	158	21,443	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	159	21,129	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	160	20,779	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	160	20,607	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	161	20,485	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	162	20,385	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	162	20,296	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	163	20,224	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	163	20,151	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	164	20,055	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	164	19,938	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	165	19,823	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	166	19,713	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	166	19,622	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	167	19,496	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	167	19,351	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	167	19,266	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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.