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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	65,020	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	65,949	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	66,869	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	67,728	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	68,541	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	69,366	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	70,224	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	71,106	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	71,992	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	72,909	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	73,922	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	75,054	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	76,164	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	77,141	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	78,138	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	79,199	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	80,262	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	81,350	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	82,412	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	83,535	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	84,737	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	85,564	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	86,346	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	87,201	530

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