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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	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	65,020	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	65,949	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	66,869	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	67,728	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	68,541	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	69,366	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	70,224	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	71,106	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	71,992	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	72,909	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	73,922	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	75,054	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	76,164	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	77,141	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	78,138	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	79,199	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	80,262	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	81,350	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	82,412	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	83,535	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	84,737	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	85,564	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	86,346	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	87,201	17,288

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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