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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	65,020	387
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	65,949	390
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	66,869	393
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	67,728	396
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	68,541	398
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	69,366	401
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	70,224	404
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	71,106	405
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	71,992	406
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	72,909	409
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	73,922	412
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	75,054	414
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	76,164	416
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	77,141	420
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	78,138	426
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	79,199	435
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	80,262	445
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	81,350	455
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	82,412	468
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	83,535	485
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	84,737	504
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	85,564	516
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	86,346	518
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	87,201	530

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