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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Türkiye	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	65,020	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	65,949	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	66,869	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	67,728	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	68,541	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	69,366	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	70,224	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	71,106	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	71,992	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	72,909	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	73,922	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	75,054	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	76,164	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	77,141	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	78,138	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	79,199	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	80,262	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	81,350	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	82,412	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	83,535	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	84,737	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	85,564	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	86,346	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	87,201	7,666

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 Afghanistan, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.