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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	Laos	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	273	65,020	5,286	152
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,949	5,397	153
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,869	5,499	154
Dec 31, 2002	276	67,728	5,578	155
Dec 31, 2003	278	68,541	5,654	156
Dec 31, 2004	279	69,366	5,746	157
Dec 31, 2005	280	70,224	5,836	157
Dec 31, 2006	281	71,106	5,931	158
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,992	6,035	159
Dec 31, 2008	283	72,909	6,145	160
Dec 31, 2009	285	73,922	6,257	160
Dec 31, 2010	286	75,054	6,368	161
Dec 31, 2011	287	76,164	6,477	162
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,141	6,586	162
Dec 31, 2013	289	78,138	6,695	163
Dec 31, 2014	290	79,199	6,804	163
Dec 31, 2015	291	80,262	6,912	164
Dec 31, 2016	291	81,350	7,019	164
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,412	7,127	165
Dec 31, 2018	293	83,535	7,234	166
Dec 31, 2019	294	84,737	7,343	166
Dec 31, 2020	294	85,564	7,452	167
Dec 31, 2021	295	86,346	7,560	167
Dec 31, 2022	295	87,201	7,666	167

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, Laos, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.