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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	North Macedonia	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	277	2,006	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	281	2,017	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	285	2,026	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	288	2,011	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	289	2,018	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	293	2,024	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	296	2,028	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	304	2,031	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	311	2,035	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	319	2,038	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	319	2,042	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	318	2,046	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	319	2,049	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	321	2,052	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	324	2,055	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	327	2,058	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	331	2,061	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	335	2,063	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	343	2,065	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	353	2,067	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	361	2,068	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	366	2,065	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	372	2,057	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	380	2,048	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.