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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	Thailand	Türkiye	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	65,020	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	65,949	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	66,869	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	67,728	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	68,541	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	69,366	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	70,224	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	71,106	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	71,992	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	72,909	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	73,922	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	75,054	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	76,164	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	77,141	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	78,138	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	79,199	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	80,262	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	81,350	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	82,412	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	83,535	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	84,737	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	85,564	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	86,346	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	87,201	6,291

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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