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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Central African Republic	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	433	3,889	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	438	3,980	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	443	4,054	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	448	4,128	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	454	4,215	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	460	4,289	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	467	4,363	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	474	4,449	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	482	4,544	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	491	4,641	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	500	4,742	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	509	4,845	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	521	4,950	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	533	5,057	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	547	5,167	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	560	5,278	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	571	5,392	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	586	5,507	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	599	5,625	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	610	5,745	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	623	5,874	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	633	6,025	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	643	6,154	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	651	6,291	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

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.

No separate list is published for Luxembourg, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.