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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	Paraguay	Türkiye	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,366	65,020	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,473	65,949	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,579	66,869	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,683	67,728	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,786	68,541	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,886	69,366	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,984	70,224	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	6,080	71,106	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,173	71,992	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,264	72,909	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,352	73,922	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,438	75,054	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,522	76,164	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,605	77,141	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	6,688	78,138	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	6,769	79,199	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	6,850	80,262	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	6,930	81,350	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	7,012	82,412	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	7,095	83,535	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	7,179	84,737	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	7,263	85,564	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	7,348	86,346	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	7,432	87,201	19,266

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.