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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	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,244	65,020	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,199	65,949	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,154	66,869	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,108	67,728	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,059	68,541	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,013	69,366	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,966	70,224	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,919	71,106	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,873	71,992	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,829	72,909	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,788	73,922	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,748	75,054	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,709	76,164	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,671	77,141	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,633	78,138	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,595	79,199	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,558	80,262	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,522	81,350	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,485	82,412	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,448	83,535	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,412	84,737	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,376	85,564	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,339	86,346	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,570	87,201	48,065

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.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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