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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Türkiye	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	433	65,020	387
Dec 31, 2000	438	65,949	390
Dec 31, 2001	443	66,869	393
Dec 31, 2002	448	67,728	396
Dec 31, 2003	454	68,541	398
Dec 31, 2004	460	69,366	401
Dec 31, 2005	467	70,224	404
Dec 31, 2006	474	71,106	405
Dec 31, 2007	482	71,992	406
Dec 31, 2008	491	72,909	409
Dec 31, 2009	500	73,922	412
Dec 31, 2010	509	75,054	414
Dec 31, 2011	521	76,164	416
Dec 31, 2012	533	77,141	420
Dec 31, 2013	547	78,138	426
Dec 31, 2014	560	79,199	435
Dec 31, 2015	571	80,262	445
Dec 31, 2016	586	81,350	455
Dec 31, 2017	599	82,412	468
Dec 31, 2018	610	83,535	485
Dec 31, 2019	623	84,737	504
Dec 31, 2020	633	85,564	516
Dec 31, 2021	643	86,346	518
Dec 31, 2022	651	87,201	530

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, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.