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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Barbados	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	273	422
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	274	430
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	275	438
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	276	447
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	278	455
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	279	463
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	280	471
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	281	478
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	282	486
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	283	494
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	285	501
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	286	509
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	287	516
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	288	524
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	289	531
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	290	539
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	291	546
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	291	553
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	292	562
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	293	568
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	294	574
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	294	580
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	295	585
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	295	590

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.

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