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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	Laos	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	277	65,020	5,286	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,949	5,397	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,869	5,499	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	288	67,728	5,578	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	289	68,541	5,654	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	293	69,366	5,746	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	296	70,224	5,836	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	304	71,106	5,931	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,992	6,035	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	319	72,909	6,145	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	319	73,922	6,257	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	318	75,054	6,368	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	76,164	6,477	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,141	6,586	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	324	78,138	6,695	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	327	79,199	6,804	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	331	80,262	6,912	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	335	81,350	7,019	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,412	7,127	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	353	83,535	7,234	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	361	84,737	7,343	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	366	85,564	7,452	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	372	86,346	7,560	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	380	87,201	7,666	108,171

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