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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Spain	Congo - Kinshasa	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	40,378	51,181	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	40,563	52,782	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	40,775	54,453	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	41,433	56,170	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	42,205	57,860	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	42,869	59,599	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	43,672	61,474	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	44,370	63,479	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	45,246	65,590	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	45,993	67,800	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	46,378	70,114	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	46,573	72,550	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	46,746	75,138	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	46,777	77,792	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	46,603	80,534	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	46,465	83,368	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	46,420	86,229	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	46,460	89,193	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	46,543	92,209	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	46,739	95,232	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	47,116	98,320	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	47,366	101,499	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	47,342	104,767	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	47,625	108,171	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.

All data sources

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

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.