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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	Türkiye	Burkina Faso	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	273	65,020	11,075	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,949	11,405	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,869	11,828	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	276	67,728	12,380	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	278	68,541	12,829	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	279	69,366	13,178	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	280	70,224	13,540	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	281	71,106	13,917	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,992	14,309	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	283	72,909	14,722	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	285	73,922	15,152	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	286	75,054	15,600	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	287	76,164	16,064	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,141	16,563	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	78,138	17,072	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	290	79,199	17,575	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	291	80,262	18,094	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	291	81,350	18,621	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,412	19,157	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	293	83,535	19,698	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	294	84,737	20,242	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	294	85,564	20,788	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	295	86,346	21,336	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	295	87,201	21,889	5,216

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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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