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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 RicoTürkiyeMoldova
2733,80065,0204,244
2743,81165,9494,199
2753,81966,8694,154
2763,82467,7284,108
2783,82668,5414,059
2793,82769,3664,013
2803,82270,2243,966
2813,80571,1063,919
2823,78371,9923,873
2833,76172,9093,829
2853,74173,9223,788
2863,72275,0543,748
2873,67976,1643,709
2883,63677,1413,671
2893,58978,1383,633
2903,53479,1993,595
2913,47380,2623,558
2913,41181,3503,522
2923,35282,4123,485
2933,29583,5353,448
2943,26884,7373,412
2943,24785,5643,376
2953,23286,3463,339
2953,22887,2013,570

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