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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Libya	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	4,993	273
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	5,116	274
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	5,237	275
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	5,357	276
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	5,476	278
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	5,595	279
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	5,715	280
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	5,835	281
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	5,967	282
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	6,115	283
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	6,270	285
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	6,432	286
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	6,144	287
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	5,849	288
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	6,010	289
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	6,163	290
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	6,291	291
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	6,415	291
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	6,549	292
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	6,689	293
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	6,826	294
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	6,960	294
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	7,088	295
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	7,169	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.

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