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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	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	65,020	627
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	65,949	659
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	66,869	691
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	67,728	724
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	68,541	757
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	69,366	850
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	70,224	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	71,106	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	71,992	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	72,909	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	73,922	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	75,054	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	76,164	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	77,141	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	78,138	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	79,199	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	80,262	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	81,350	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	82,412	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	83,535	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	84,737	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	85,564	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	86,346	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	87,201	2,559

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