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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	Romania	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	273	65,020	22,414	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,949	22,262	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,869	22,106	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	67,728	21,931	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	278	68,541	21,828	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	279	69,366	21,704	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	280	70,224	21,571	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	281	71,106	21,443	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,992	21,129	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	283	72,909	20,779	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	285	73,922	20,607	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	286	75,054	20,485	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	287	76,164	20,385	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,141	20,296	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	289	78,138	20,224	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	290	79,199	20,151	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	291	80,262	20,055	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	291	81,350	19,938	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,412	19,823	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	293	83,535	19,713	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	294	84,737	19,622	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	294	85,564	19,496	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	295	86,346	19,351	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	295	87,201	19,266	10,200

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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