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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	Oman	Azerbaijan
Dec 31, 1999	273	65,020	2,348	8,056
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,949	2,403	8,127
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,869	2,457	8,194
Dec 31, 2002	276	67,728	2,510	8,257
Dec 31, 2003	278	68,541	2,562	8,319
Dec 31, 2004	279	69,366	2,613	8,391
Dec 31, 2005	280	70,224	2,663	8,475
Dec 31, 2006	281	71,106	2,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,992	2,764	8,657
Dec 31, 2008	283	72,909	2,816	8,750
Dec 31, 2009	285	73,922	2,871	8,842
Dec 31, 2010	286	75,054	2,928	8,933
Dec 31, 2011	287	76,164	2,986	9,025
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,141	3,047	9,117
Dec 31, 2013	289	78,138	3,110	9,210
Dec 31, 2014	290	79,199	3,174	9,302
Dec 31, 2015	291	80,262	3,240	9,393
Dec 31, 2016	291	81,350	3,307	9,481
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,412	3,375	9,567
Dec 31, 2018	293	83,535	3,444	9,649
Dec 31, 2019	294	84,737	3,512	9,727
Dec 31, 2020	294	85,564	3,582	9,802
Dec 31, 2021	295	86,346	3,651	9,874
Dec 31, 2022	295	87,201	3,696	9,918

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, Oman, Azerbaijan; the database as a whole is cited above.