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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Barbados	Trinidad & Tobago
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	273	1,301
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	274	1,303
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	275	1,308
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	276	1,314
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	278	1,320
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	279	1,326
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	280	1,332
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	281	1,338
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	282	1,344
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	283	1,352
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	285	1,359
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	286	1,365
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	287	1,372
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	288	1,379
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	289	1,386
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	290	1,392
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	291	1,399
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	291	1,405
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	292	1,411
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	293	1,436
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	294	1,452
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	294	1,448
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	295	1,450
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	295	1,456

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, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.