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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	Romania	Türkiye	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	65,020	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	65,949	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	66,869	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	67,728	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	68,541	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	69,366	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	70,224	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	71,106	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	71,992	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	72,909	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	73,922	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	75,054	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	76,164	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	77,141	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	78,138	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	79,199	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	80,262	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	81,350	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	82,412	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	83,535	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	84,737	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	85,564	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	86,346	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	87,201	7,666

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

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.

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