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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Türkiye	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	433	65,020	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	438	65,949	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	443	66,869	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	448	67,728	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	454	68,541	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	460	69,366	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	467	70,224	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	474	71,106	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	482	71,992	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	491	72,909	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	500	73,922	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	509	75,054	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	521	76,164	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	533	77,141	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	547	78,138	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	560	79,199	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	571	80,262	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	586	81,350	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	599	82,412	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	610	83,535	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	623	84,737	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	633	85,564	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	643	86,346	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	651	87,201	68,457

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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