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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	Malta	Türkiye	Albania	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	387	65,020	3,085	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	390	65,949	3,065	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	393	66,869	3,047	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	396	67,728	3,038	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	398	68,541	3,026	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	401	69,366	3,014	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	404	70,224	2,998	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	405	71,106	2,979	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	406	71,992	2,957	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	409	72,909	2,934	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	412	73,922	2,915	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	414	75,054	2,900	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	416	76,164	2,892	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	420	77,141	2,888	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	426	78,138	2,882	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	435	79,199	2,876	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	445	80,262	2,868	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	455	81,350	2,863	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	468	82,412	2,861	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	485	83,535	2,854	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	504	84,737	2,842	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	516	85,564	2,825	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	518	86,346	2,799	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	530	87,201	2,787	21,889

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 Malta, Albania, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.