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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bangladesh	Türkiye	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	65,020	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	65,949	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	66,869	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	67,728	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	68,541	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	69,366	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	70,224	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	71,106	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	71,992	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	72,909	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	73,922	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	75,054	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	76,164	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	77,141	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	78,138	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	79,199	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	80,262	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	81,350	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	82,412	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	83,535	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	84,737	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	85,564	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	86,346	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	87,201	10,099

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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 United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.