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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Türkiye	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	65,020	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	65,949	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	66,869	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	67,728	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	68,541	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	69,366	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	70,224	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	71,106	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	71,992	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	72,909	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	73,922	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	75,054	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	76,164	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	77,141	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	78,138	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	79,199	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	80,262	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	81,350	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	82,412	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	83,535	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	84,737	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	85,564	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	86,346	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	87,201	38,685

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.

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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