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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	Iceland	Barbados	Albania	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	277	273	3,085	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	281	274	3,065	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	285	275	3,047	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	288	276	3,038	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	289	278	3,026	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	293	279	3,014	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	296	280	2,998	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	304	281	2,979	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	311	282	2,957	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	319	283	2,934	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	319	285	2,915	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	318	286	2,900	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	319	287	2,892	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	321	288	2,888	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	324	289	2,882	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	327	290	2,876	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	331	291	2,868	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	335	291	2,863	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	343	292	2,861	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	353	293	2,854	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	361	294	2,842	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	366	294	2,825	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	372	295	2,799	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	380	295	2,787	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.

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.