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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Sierra Leone	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	3,736	273
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	3,809	274
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	4,043	275
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	4,287	276
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	4,466	278
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	4,602	279
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	4,708	280
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	4,818	281
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	4,918	282
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	5,023	283
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	5,132	285
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	5,246	286
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	5,364	287
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	5,486	288
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	5,613	289
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	5,744	290
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	5,879	291
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	6,019	291
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	6,163	292
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	6,312	293
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	6,461	294
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	6,611	294
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	6,761	295
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	6,910	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 Sierra Leone, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.