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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	North Macedonia	Türkiye	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,006	65,020	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,017	65,949	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,026	66,869	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,011	67,728	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,018	68,541	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,024	69,366	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,028	70,224	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,031	71,106	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,035	71,992	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,038	72,909	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,042	73,922	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,046	75,054	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,049	76,164	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,052	77,141	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,055	78,138	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,058	79,199	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,061	80,262	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,063	81,350	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,065	82,412	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,067	83,535	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,068	84,737	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,065	85,564	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,057	86,346	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,048	87,201	108,171

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

North Macedonia

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

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, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.