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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	Luxembourg	Oman	Burkina Faso	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	433	2,348	11,075	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	438	2,403	11,405	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	443	2,457	11,828	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	448	2,510	12,380	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	454	2,562	12,829	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	460	2,613	13,178	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	467	2,663	13,540	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	474	2,713	13,917	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	482	2,764	14,309	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	491	2,816	14,722	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	500	2,871	15,152	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	509	2,928	15,600	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	521	2,986	16,064	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	533	3,047	16,563	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	547	3,110	17,072	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	560	3,174	17,575	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	571	3,240	18,094	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	586	3,307	18,621	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	599	3,375	19,157	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	610	3,444	19,698	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	623	3,512	20,242	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	633	3,582	20,788	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	643	3,651	21,336	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	651	3,696	21,889	87,201

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

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 Luxembourg, Oman, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.