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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosOmanTürkiyeCameroon
2732,34865,02015,483
2742,40365,94915,913
2752,45766,86916,354
2762,51067,72816,815
2782,56268,54117,289
2792,61369,36617,764
2802,66370,22418,249
2812,71371,10618,746
2822,76471,99219,278
2832,81672,90919,843
2852,87173,92220,419
2862,92875,05421,002
2872,98676,16421,586
2883,04777,14122,181
2893,11078,13822,800
2903,17479,19923,513
2913,24080,26224,273
2913,30781,35024,995
2923,37582,41225,680
2933,44483,53526,373
2943,51284,73727,114
2943,58285,56427,878
2953,65186,34628,663
2953,69687,20129,417

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