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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	Dominica	Türkiye	Oman	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	70	65,020	2,348	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	71	65,949	2,403	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	71	66,869	2,457	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	72	67,728	2,510	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	72	68,541	2,562	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	72	69,366	2,613	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	72	70,224	2,663	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	72	71,106	2,713	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	72	71,992	2,764	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	73	72,909	2,816	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	73	73,922	2,871	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	73	75,054	2,928	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	73	76,164	2,986	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	73	77,141	3,047	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	73	78,138	3,110	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	73	79,199	3,174	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	74	80,262	3,240	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	74	81,350	3,307	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	74	82,412	3,375	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	74	83,535	3,444	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	75	84,737	3,512	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	75	85,564	3,582	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	76	86,346	3,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	76	87,201	3,696	108,171

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, Oman, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.