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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Trinidad & Tobago	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	1,301	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	1,303	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	1,308	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	1,314	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	1,320	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	1,326	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	1,332	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	1,338	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	1,344	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	1,352	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	1,359	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	1,365	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	1,372	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	1,379	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	1,386	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	1,392	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	1,399	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	1,405	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	1,411	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	1,436	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	1,452	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	1,448	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	1,450	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	1,456	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, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.