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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	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	65,020	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	65,949	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	66,869	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	67,728	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	68,541	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	69,366	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	70,224	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	71,106	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	71,992	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	72,909	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	73,922	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	75,054	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	76,164	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	77,141	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	78,138	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	79,199	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	80,262	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	81,350	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	82,412	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	83,535	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	84,737	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	85,564	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	86,346	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	87,201	68,457

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989