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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Venezuela	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,188	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,601	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,011	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,425	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,841	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,255	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,667	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,079	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,589	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,098	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,510	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,920	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,327	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,722	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,111	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,418	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,693	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,961	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,856	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,858	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	27,921	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	27,871	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	28,316	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	28,418	87,201

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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; the database as a whole is cited above.