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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	Zambia	Burkina Faso	Türkiye	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	11,075	65,020	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	11,405	65,949	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	11,828	66,869	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,380	67,728	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	12,829	68,541	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,178	69,366	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,540	70,224	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,917	71,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,309	71,992	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,722	72,909	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	15,152	73,922	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	15,600	75,054	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	16,064	76,164	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	16,563	77,141	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	17,072	78,138	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	17,575	79,199	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	18,094	80,262	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	18,621	81,350	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	19,157	82,412	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	19,698	83,535	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	20,242	84,737	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	20,788	85,564	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	21,336	86,346	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	21,889	87,201	3,570

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

Zambia

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.

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