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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	Tunisia	Türkiye	Oman	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	65,020	2,348	273
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	65,949	2,403	274
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	66,869	2,457	275
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	67,728	2,510	276
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	68,541	2,562	278
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	69,366	2,613	279
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	70,224	2,663	280
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	71,106	2,713	281
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	71,992	2,764	282
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	72,909	2,816	283
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	73,922	2,871	285
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	75,054	2,928	286
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	76,164	2,986	287
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	77,141	3,047	288
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	78,138	3,110	289
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	79,199	3,174	290
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	80,262	3,240	291
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	81,350	3,307	291
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	82,412	3,375	292
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	83,535	3,444	293
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	84,737	3,512	294
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	85,564	3,582	294
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	86,346	3,651	295
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	87,201	3,696	295

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