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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date UzbekistanBurkina FasoTürkiye
24,70111,07565,020
25,04211,40565,949
25,37211,82866,869
25,69612,38067,728
25,99212,82968,541
26,26813,17869,366
26,54013,54070,224
26,81213,91771,106
27,08114,30971,992
27,34714,72272,909
27,60915,15273,922
27,86915,60075,054
28,13216,06476,164
28,39816,56377,141
28,66617,07278,138
28,93417,57579,199
29,20518,09480,262
29,48018,62181,350
29,75619,15782,412
30,03119,69883,535
30,30520,24284,737
30,57620,78885,564
30,84321,33686,346
31,33721,88987,201

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 Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.