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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	São Tomé & Príncipe	Burkina Faso	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	138	11,075	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	141	11,405	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	144	11,828	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	147	12,380	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	151	12,829	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	154	13,178	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	158	13,540	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	161	13,917	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	165	14,309	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	168	14,722	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	172	15,152	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	176	15,600	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	180	16,064	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	183	16,563	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	187	17,072	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	190	17,575	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	194	18,094	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	198	18,621	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	201	19,157	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	204	19,698	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	208	20,242	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	212	20,788	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	216	21,336	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	220	21,889	87,201

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, São Tomé & Príncipe, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.