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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Türkiye	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	65,020	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	65,949	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	66,869	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	67,728	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	68,541	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	69,366	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	70,224	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	71,106	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	71,992	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	72,909	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	73,922	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	75,054	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	76,164	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	77,141	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	78,138	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	79,199	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	80,262	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	81,350	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	82,412	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	83,535	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	84,737	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	85,564	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	86,346	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	87,201	121,234

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.