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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	Uruguay
Dec 31, 1999	273	65,020	3,234
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,949	3,246
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,869	3,257
Dec 31, 2002	276	67,728	3,268
Dec 31, 2003	278	68,541	3,277
Dec 31, 2004	279	69,366	3,285
Dec 31, 2005	280	70,224	3,291
Dec 31, 2006	281	71,106	3,298
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,992	3,305
Dec 31, 2008	283	72,909	3,313
Dec 31, 2009	285	73,922	3,321
Dec 31, 2010	286	75,054	3,329
Dec 31, 2011	287	76,164	3,337
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,141	3,345
Dec 31, 2013	289	78,138	3,353
Dec 31, 2014	290	79,199	3,362
Dec 31, 2015	291	80,262	3,371
Dec 31, 2016	291	81,350	3,380
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,412	3,390
Dec 31, 2018	293	83,535	3,399
Dec 31, 2019	294	84,737	3,408
Dec 31, 2020	294	85,564	3,417
Dec 31, 2021	295	86,346	3,426
Dec 31, 2022	295	87,201	3,422

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.

Uruguay

1800-1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1870–2014: Bèrtola, L. (2016). El PIB per Capita de Uruguay 1870 - 2016: una reconstruccion. PHES working paper No 48

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