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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Luxembourg	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	433	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	438	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	443	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	448	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	454	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	460	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	467	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	474	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	482	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	491	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	500	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	509	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	521	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	533	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	547	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	560	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	571	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	586	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	599	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	610	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	623	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	633	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	643	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	651	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

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.