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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Qatar	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	627	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	659	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	691	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	724	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	757	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	850	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	1,001	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	1,153	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	1,306	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	1,460	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	1,615	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	1,770	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	1,904	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	2,010	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	2,103	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	2,187	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	2,261	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	2,326	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	2,384	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	2,435	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	2,480	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	2,519	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	2,553	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	2,559	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.

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.