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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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

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.