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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Türkiye	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	277	51,181	65,020	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	281	52,782	65,949	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	285	54,453	66,869	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	288	56,170	67,728	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	289	57,860	68,541	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	293	59,599	69,366	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	296	61,474	70,224	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,479	71,106	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	311	65,590	71,992	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	319	67,800	72,909	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	319	70,114	73,922	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	318	72,550	75,054	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	319	75,138	76,164	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,792	77,141	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,534	78,138	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	327	83,368	79,199	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	331	86,229	80,262	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	335	89,193	81,350	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	343	92,209	82,412	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	353	95,232	83,535	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	361	98,320	84,737	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	366	101,499	85,564	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	372	104,767	86,346	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	380	108,171	87,201	7,432

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