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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosTürkiyeBurkina FasoDenmark
27365,02011,0755,322
27465,94911,4055,339
27566,86911,8285,358
27667,72812,3805,377
27868,54112,8295,391
27969,36613,1785,404
28070,22413,5405,420
28171,10613,9175,438
28271,99214,3095,461
28372,90914,7225,494
28573,92215,1525,524
28675,05415,6005,548
28776,16416,0645,571
28877,14116,5635,592
28978,13817,0725,614
29079,19917,5755,644
29180,26218,0945,683
29181,35018,6215,730
29282,41219,1575,766
29383,53519,6985,795
29484,73720,2425,818
29485,56420,7885,831
29586,34621,3365,855
29587,20121,8895,907

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, Burkina Faso, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.