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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	Romania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	2,348	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	2,403	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	2,457	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	2,510	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	2,562	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	2,613	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	2,663	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	2,713	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	2,764	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	2,816	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	2,871	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	2,928	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	2,986	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	3,047	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	3,110	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	3,174	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	3,240	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	3,307	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	3,375	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	3,444	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	3,512	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	3,582	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	3,651	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	3,696	19,266	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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Oman, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.