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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	Türkiye	Burkina Faso	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	277	65,020	11,075	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,949	11,405	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,869	11,828	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	288	67,728	12,380	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	289	68,541	12,829	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	293	69,366	13,178	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	296	70,224	13,540	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	304	71,106	13,917	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,992	14,309	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	319	72,909	14,722	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	319	73,922	15,152	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	318	75,054	15,600	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	319	76,164	16,064	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,141	16,563	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	324	78,138	17,072	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	327	79,199	17,575	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	331	80,262	18,094	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	335	81,350	18,621	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,412	19,157	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	353	83,535	19,698	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	361	84,737	20,242	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	366	85,564	20,788	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	372	86,346	21,336	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	380	87,201	21,889	174,217

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.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.