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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	Mexico	Türkiye	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	273	97,242	65,020	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	274	98,403	65,949	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	275	99,599	66,869	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	276	100,863	67,728	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	278	102,132	68,541	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	279	103,334	69,366	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	280	104,508	70,224	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	281	105,738	71,106	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	282	107,083	71,992	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	283	108,554	72,909	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	285	110,061	73,922	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	286	111,468	75,054	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	287	112,826	76,164	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	288	114,163	77,141	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	289	115,471	78,138	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	290	116,757	79,199	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	291	118,017	80,262	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	291	117,444	81,350	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	292	118,799	82,412	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	293	120,289	83,535	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	294	121,872	84,737	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	294	123,260	85,564	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	295	124,462	86,346	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	295	125,247	87,201	2,787

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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.