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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Uganda	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	23,408	273
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	24,195	274
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	24,992	275
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	25,846	276
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	26,661	278
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	27,414	279
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	28,200	280
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	29,021	281
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	29,846	282
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	30,647	283
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	31,469	285
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	32,343	286
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	33,257	287
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	34,234	288
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	35,271	289
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	36,419	290
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	37,673	291
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	39,157	291
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	40,879	292
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	42,329	293
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	43,639	294
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	45,120	294
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	46,645	295
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	48,065	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.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.