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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	Luxembourg	Türkiye	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	273	433	65,020	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	274	438	65,949	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	275	443	66,869	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	276	448	67,728	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	278	454	68,541	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	279	460	69,366	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	280	467	70,224	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	281	474	71,106	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	282	482	71,992	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	283	491	72,909	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	500	73,922	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	286	509	75,054	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	287	521	76,164	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	288	533	77,141	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	289	547	78,138	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	290	560	79,199	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	291	571	80,262	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	586	81,350	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	292	599	82,412	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	293	610	83,535	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	294	623	84,737	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	294	633	85,564	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	295	643	86,346	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	295	651	87,201	7,432

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

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, Luxembourg, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.