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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Türkiye	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	65,020	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,949	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,869	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	67,728	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	68,541	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	69,366	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	70,224	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	71,106	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,992	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	72,909	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	73,922	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	75,054	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	76,164	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,141	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	78,138	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	79,199	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	80,262	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	81,350	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,412	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	83,535	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	84,737	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	85,564	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	86,346	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	87,201	5,458

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.

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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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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