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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 TürkiyeBurkina FasoParaguayBarbados
65,02011,0755,366273
65,94911,4055,473274
66,86911,8285,579275
67,72812,3805,683276
68,54112,8295,786278
69,36613,1785,886279
70,22413,5405,984280
71,10613,9176,080281
71,99214,3096,173282
72,90914,7226,264283
73,92215,1526,352285
75,05415,6006,438286
76,16416,0646,522287
77,14116,5636,605288
78,13817,0726,688289
79,19917,5756,769290
80,26218,0946,850291
81,35018,6216,930291
82,41219,1577,012292
83,53519,6987,095293
84,73720,2427,179294
85,56420,7887,263294
86,34621,3367,348295
87,20121,8897,432295

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