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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso	Türkiye	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,075	65,020	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,405	65,949	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	11,828	66,869	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,380	67,728	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	12,829	68,541	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,178	69,366	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,540	70,224	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,917	71,106	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,309	71,992	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,722	72,909	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	15,152	73,922	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	15,600	75,054	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	16,064	76,164	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	16,563	77,141	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	17,072	78,138	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	17,575	79,199	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	18,094	80,262	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	18,621	81,350	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,157	82,412	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,698	83,535	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	20,242	84,737	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	20,788	85,564	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	21,336	86,346	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	21,889	87,201	5,907

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.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Burkina Faso, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.