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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	Netherlands
Dec 31, 1999	273	65,020	2,348	15,817
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,949	2,403	15,932
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,869	2,457	16,052
Dec 31, 2002	276	67,728	2,510	16,155
Dec 31, 2003	278	68,541	2,562	16,231
Dec 31, 2004	279	69,366	2,613	16,288
Dec 31, 2005	280	70,224	2,663	16,326
Dec 31, 2006	281	71,106	2,713	16,352
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,992	2,764	16,388
Dec 31, 2008	283	72,909	2,816	16,452
Dec 31, 2009	285	73,922	2,871	16,536
Dec 31, 2010	286	75,054	2,928	16,621
Dec 31, 2011	287	76,164	2,986	16,699
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,141	3,047	16,761
Dec 31, 2013	289	78,138	3,110	16,810
Dec 31, 2014	290	79,199	3,174	16,871
Dec 31, 2015	291	80,262	3,240	16,946
Dec 31, 2016	291	81,350	3,307	17,036
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,412	3,375	17,137
Dec 31, 2018	293	83,535	3,444	17,238
Dec 31, 2019	294	84,737	3,512	17,351
Dec 31, 2020	294	85,564	3,582	17,448
Dec 31, 2021	295	86,346	3,651	17,539
Dec 31, 2022	295	87,201	3,696	17,709

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.

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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