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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	Oman	Türkiye	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	2,348	65,020	627
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	2,403	65,949	659
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	2,457	66,869	691
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	2,510	67,728	724
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	2,562	68,541	757
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	2,613	69,366	850
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	2,663	70,224	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	2,713	71,106	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	2,764	71,992	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	2,816	72,909	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	2,871	73,922	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	2,928	75,054	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	2,986	76,164	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	3,047	77,141	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	3,110	78,138	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	3,174	79,199	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	3,240	80,262	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	3,307	81,350	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	3,375	82,412	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	3,444	83,535	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	3,512	84,737	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	3,582	85,564	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	3,651	86,346	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	3,696	87,201	2,559

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 Oman, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.