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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Türkiye	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	65,020	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	65,949	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	66,869	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	67,728	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	68,541	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	69,366	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	70,224	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	71,106	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	71,992	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	72,909	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	73,922	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	75,054	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	76,164	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	77,141	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	78,138	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	79,199	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	80,262	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	81,350	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	82,412	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	83,535	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	84,737	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	85,564	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	86,346	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	87,201	11,695

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.