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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	Oman	Burkina Faso	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	2,348	11,075	152
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	2,403	11,405	153
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	2,457	11,828	154
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	2,510	12,380	155
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	2,562	12,829	156
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	2,613	13,178	157
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	2,663	13,540	157
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	2,713	13,917	158
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	2,764	14,309	159
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	2,816	14,722	160
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	2,871	15,152	160
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	2,928	15,600	161
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	2,986	16,064	162
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	3,047	16,563	162
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	3,110	17,072	163
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	3,174	17,575	163
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	3,240	18,094	164
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	3,307	18,621	164
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	3,375	19,157	165
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	3,444	19,698	166
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	3,512	20,242	166
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	3,582	20,788	167
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	3,651	21,336	167
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	3,696	21,889	167

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