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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaBurkina FasoOmanTürkiye
7011,0752,34865,020
7111,4052,40365,949
7111,8282,45766,869
7212,3802,51067,728
7212,8292,56268,541
7213,1782,61369,366
7213,5402,66370,224
7213,9172,71371,106
7214,3092,76471,992
7314,7222,81672,909
7315,1522,87173,922
7315,6002,92875,054
7316,0642,98676,164
7316,5633,04777,141
7317,0723,11078,138
7317,5753,17479,199
7418,0943,24080,262
7418,6213,30781,350
7419,1573,37582,412
7419,6983,44483,535
7520,2423,51284,737
7520,7883,58285,564
7621,3363,65186,346
7621,8893,69687,201

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.

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 Dominica, Burkina Faso, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.