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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Türkiye	Trinidad & Tobago
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	65,020	1,301
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	65,949	1,303
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	66,869	1,308
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	67,728	1,314
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	68,541	1,320
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	69,366	1,326
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	70,224	1,332
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	71,106	1,338
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	71,992	1,344
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	72,909	1,352
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	73,922	1,359
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	75,054	1,365
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	76,164	1,372
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	77,141	1,379
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	78,138	1,386
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	79,199	1,392
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	80,262	1,399
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	81,350	1,405
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	82,412	1,411
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	83,535	1,436
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	84,737	1,452
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	85,564	1,448
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	86,346	1,450
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	87,201	1,456

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.

No separate list is published for Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.