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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	Türkiye	Burkina Faso	Oman	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	11,075	2,348	387
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	11,405	2,403	390
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	11,828	2,457	393
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	12,380	2,510	396
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	12,829	2,562	398
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	13,178	2,613	401
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	13,540	2,663	404
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	13,917	2,713	405
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	14,309	2,764	406
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	14,722	2,816	409
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	15,152	2,871	412
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	15,600	2,928	414
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	16,064	2,986	416
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	16,563	3,047	420
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	17,072	3,110	426
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	17,575	3,174	435
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	18,094	3,240	445
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	18,621	3,307	455
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	19,157	3,375	468
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	19,698	3,444	485
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	20,242	3,512	504
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	20,788	3,582	516
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	21,336	3,651	518
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	21,889	3,696	530

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 Burkina Faso, Oman, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.