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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	São Tomé & Príncipe	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	138	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	141	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	144	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	147	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	151	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	154	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	158	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	161	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	165	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	168	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	172	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	176	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	180	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	183	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	187	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	190	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	194	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	198	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	201	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	204	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	208	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	212	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	216	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	220	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 Central African Republic, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.