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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Peru	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	277	20,963	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	281	21,291	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	285	21,631	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,980	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,339	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,707	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,055	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	304	23,380	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	311	23,708	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	319	23,944	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	319	24,087	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	318	24,228	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	319	24,364	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,491	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	324	24,607	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	327	24,714	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	331	24,812	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	335	24,904	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	343	24,999	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	353	25,403	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	361	25,966	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	366	26,308	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	372	26,508	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	380	26,771	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.

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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.