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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	Trinidad & Tobago
Dec 31, 1999	273	65,020	1,301
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,949	1,303
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,869	1,308
Dec 31, 2002	276	67,728	1,314
Dec 31, 2003	278	68,541	1,320
Dec 31, 2004	279	69,366	1,326
Dec 31, 2005	280	70,224	1,332
Dec 31, 2006	281	71,106	1,338
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,992	1,344
Dec 31, 2008	283	72,909	1,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	73,922	1,359
Dec 31, 2010	286	75,054	1,365
Dec 31, 2011	287	76,164	1,372
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,141	1,379
Dec 31, 2013	289	78,138	1,386
Dec 31, 2014	290	79,199	1,392
Dec 31, 2015	291	80,262	1,399
Dec 31, 2016	291	81,350	1,405
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,412	1,411
Dec 31, 2018	293	83,535	1,436
Dec 31, 2019	294	84,737	1,452
Dec 31, 2020	294	85,564	1,448
Dec 31, 2021	295	86,346	1,450
Dec 31, 2022	295	87,201	1,456

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.

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