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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Türkiye	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	65,020	138
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	65,949	141
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	66,869	144
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	67,728	147
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	68,541	151
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	69,366	154
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	70,224	158
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	71,106	161
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	71,992	165
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	72,909	168
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	73,922	172
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	75,054	176
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	76,164	180
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	77,141	183
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	78,138	187
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	79,199	190
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	80,262	194
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	81,350	198
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	82,412	201
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	83,535	204
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	84,737	208
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	85,564	212
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	86,346	216
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	87,201	220

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.