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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	Romania	Türkiye	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	65,020	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	65,949	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	66,869	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	67,728	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	68,541	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	69,366	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	70,224	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	71,106	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	71,992	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	72,909	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	73,922	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	75,054	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	76,164	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	77,141	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	78,138	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	79,199	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	80,262	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	81,350	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	82,412	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	83,535	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	84,737	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	85,564	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	86,346	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	87,201	5,907

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.