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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	Oman	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	387	65,020	2,348	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	390	65,949	2,403	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	393	66,869	2,457	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	396	67,728	2,510	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	398	68,541	2,562	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	401	69,366	2,613	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	404	70,224	2,663	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	405	71,106	2,713	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	406	71,992	2,764	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	409	72,909	2,816	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	412	73,922	2,871	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	414	75,054	2,928	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	416	76,164	2,986	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	420	77,141	3,047	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	426	78,138	3,110	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	435	79,199	3,174	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	445	80,262	3,240	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	455	81,350	3,307	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	468	82,412	3,375	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	485	83,535	3,444	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	504	84,737	3,512	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	516	85,564	3,582	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	518	86,346	3,651	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	530	87,201	3,696	19,266

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.

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.

No separate list is published for Malta, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.