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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	Moldova	Türkiye	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,244	65,020	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,199	65,949	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,154	66,869	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,108	67,728	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	289	4,059	68,541	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	293	4,013	69,366	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	296	3,966	70,224	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	304	3,919	71,106	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	311	3,873	71,992	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	319	3,829	72,909	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	319	3,788	73,922	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	318	3,748	75,054	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	319	3,709	76,164	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	321	3,671	77,141	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	324	3,633	78,138	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	327	3,595	79,199	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	331	3,558	80,262	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	335	3,522	81,350	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	343	3,485	82,412	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	353	3,448	83,535	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	361	3,412	84,737	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	366	3,376	85,564	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	372	3,339	86,346	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	3,570	87,201	3,696

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 Moldova, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.