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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	Burkina Faso	Türkiye	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	65,020	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	65,949	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	66,869	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	67,728	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	68,541	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	69,366	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	70,224	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	71,106	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	71,992	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	72,909	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	73,922	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	75,054	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	76,164	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	77,141	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	78,138	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	79,199	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	80,262	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	81,350	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	82,412	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	83,535	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	84,737	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	85,564	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	86,346	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	87,201	17,288

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.