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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PhilippinesBosnia & HerzegovinaTürkiye
79,3463,81165,020
81,1313,90165,949
83,0233,91966,869
84,8763,92367,728
86,6973,94068,541
88,5683,97569,366
90,4183,99170,224
92,2533,99371,106
94,0983,99071,992
95,9233,98772,909
97,6273,98573,922
99,3173,98375,054
100,9993,98076,164
102,6183,97777,141
104,2993,97378,138
106,0763,96879,199
107,8683,96380,262
109,4933,95781,350
111,0943,95182,412
112,8433,94483,535
114,6363,93784,737
117,0263,92985,564
119,4733,92186,346
121,2343,87687,201

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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.