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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosOmanTürkiyeUnited Arab Emirates
2732,34865,0203,101
2742,40365,9493,284
2752,45766,8693,458
2762,51067,7283,613
2782,56268,5413,754
2792,61369,3663,882
2802,66370,2244,000
2812,71371,1064,532
2822,76471,9925,623
2832,81672,9097,277
2852,87173,9228,164
2862,92875,0548,152
2872,98676,1648,438
2883,04777,1418,747
2893,11078,1389,077
2903,17479,1999,321
2913,24080,2629,461
2913,30781,3509,587
2923,37582,4129,699
2933,44483,5359,796
2943,51284,7379,879
2943,58285,5649,953
2953,65186,34610,018
2953,69687,20110,099

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, Oman, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.