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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Canada	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	30,510	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	30,796	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	31,132	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	31,473	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	31,758	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	32,055	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	32,360	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	32,688	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	33,007	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	33,367	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	33,750	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	34,127	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	34,463	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	34,839	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	35,209	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	35,565	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	35,831	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	36,239	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	36,677	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	37,198	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	37,736	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	38,174	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	38,383	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	38,685	87,201

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

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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.

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.