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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Türkiye	Serbia
Dec 31, 1999	277	65,020	7,611
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,949	7,587
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,869	7,574
Dec 31, 2002	288	67,728	7,570
Dec 31, 2003	289	68,541	7,551
Dec 31, 2004	293	69,366	7,533
Dec 31, 2005	296	70,224	7,510
Dec 31, 2006	304	71,106	7,481
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,992	7,451
Dec 31, 2008	319	72,909	7,419
Dec 31, 2009	319	73,922	7,389
Dec 31, 2010	318	75,054	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	319	76,164	7,304
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,141	7,269
Dec 31, 2013	324	78,138	7,234
Dec 31, 2014	327	79,199	7,199
Dec 31, 2015	331	80,262	7,162
Dec 31, 2016	335	81,350	7,124
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,412	7,087
Dec 31, 2018	353	83,535	7,048
Dec 31, 2019	361	84,737	7,010
Dec 31, 2020	366	85,564	6,964
Dec 31, 2021	372	86,346	6,898
Dec 31, 2022	380	87,201	6,833

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.

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.

Serbia

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