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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Türkiye	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	65,020	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	65,949	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	66,869	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	67,728	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	68,541	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	69,366	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	70,224	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	71,106	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	71,992	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	72,909	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	73,922	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	75,054	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	76,164	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	77,141	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	78,138	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	79,199	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	80,262	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	81,350	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,412	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	83,535	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	84,737	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	85,564	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	86,346	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	87,201	295

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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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.