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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	Moldova	Türkiye	North Macedonia
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,244	65,020	2,006
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,199	65,949	2,017
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,154	66,869	2,026
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,108	67,728	2,011
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,059	68,541	2,018
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,013	69,366	2,024
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,966	70,224	2,028
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,919	71,106	2,031
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,873	71,992	2,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,829	72,909	2,038
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,788	73,922	2,042
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,748	75,054	2,046
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,709	76,164	2,049
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,671	77,141	2,052
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,633	78,138	2,055
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,595	79,199	2,058
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,558	80,262	2,061
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,522	81,350	2,063
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,485	82,412	2,065
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,448	83,535	2,067
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,412	84,737	2,068
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,376	85,564	2,065
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,339	86,346	2,057
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,570	87,201	2,048

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.

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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