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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Türkiye	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	277	65,020	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,949	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,869	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	288	67,728	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	289	68,541	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	293	69,366	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	296	70,224	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	304	71,106	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,992	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	319	72,909	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	319	73,922	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	318	75,054	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	319	76,164	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,141	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	324	78,138	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	327	79,199	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	331	80,262	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	335	81,350	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,412	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	353	83,535	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	361	84,737	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	366	85,564	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	372	86,346	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	380	87,201	63,382

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.

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490