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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PhilippinesTürkiyeOmanBarbados
79,34665,0202,348273
81,13165,9492,403274
83,02366,8692,457275
84,87667,7282,510276
86,69768,5412,562278
88,56869,3662,613279
90,41870,2242,663280
92,25371,1062,713281
94,09871,9922,764282
95,92372,9092,816283
97,62773,9222,871285
99,31775,0542,928286
100,99976,1642,986287
102,61877,1413,047288
104,29978,1383,110289
106,07679,1993,174290
107,86880,2623,240291
109,49381,3503,307291
111,09482,4123,375292
112,84383,5353,444293
114,63684,7373,512294
117,02685,5643,582294
119,47386,3463,651295
121,23487,2013,696295

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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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 Oman, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.