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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 BarbadosPuerto RicoTürkiyeCentral African Republic
2733,80065,0203,889
2743,81165,9493,980
2753,81966,8694,054
2763,82467,7284,128
2783,82668,5414,215
2793,82769,3664,289
2803,82270,2244,363
2813,80571,1064,449
2823,78371,9924,544
2833,76172,9094,641
2853,74173,9224,742
2863,72275,0544,845
2873,67976,1644,950
2883,63677,1415,057
2893,58978,1385,167
2903,53479,1995,278
2913,47380,2625,392
2913,41181,3505,507
2923,35282,4125,625
2933,29583,5355,745
2943,26884,7375,874
2943,24785,5646,025
2953,23286,3466,154
2953,22887,2016,291

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, Puerto Rico, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.