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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Netherlands	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	15,817	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	15,932	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	16,052	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	16,155	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	16,231	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	16,288	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	16,326	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	16,352	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	16,388	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	16,452	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	16,536	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	16,621	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	16,699	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	16,761	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	16,810	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	16,871	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	16,946	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	17,036	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	17,137	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	17,238	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	17,351	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	17,448	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	17,539	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	17,709	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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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.