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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Congo - Kinshasa	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	51,181	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	52,782	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	54,453	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	56,170	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	57,860	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	59,599	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	61,474	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	63,479	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	65,590	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	67,800	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	70,114	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	72,550	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	75,138	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	77,792	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	80,534	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	83,368	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	86,229	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	89,193	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	92,209	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	95,232	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	98,320	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	101,499	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	104,767	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	108,171	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

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 Central African Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.