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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Türkiye	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	387	65,020	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	390	65,949	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	393	66,869	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	396	67,728	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	398	68,541	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	401	69,366	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	404	70,224	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	405	71,106	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	406	71,992	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	409	72,909	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	412	73,922	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	414	75,054	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	416	76,164	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	420	77,141	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	426	78,138	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	435	79,199	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	445	80,262	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	455	81,350	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	468	82,412	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	485	83,535	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	504	84,737	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	516	85,564	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	518	86,346	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	530	87,201	37,914

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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