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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Congo - Kinshasa	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	51,181	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	52,782	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	54,453	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	56,170	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	57,860	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	59,599	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	61,474	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	63,479	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	65,590	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	67,800	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	70,114	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	72,550	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	75,138	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	77,792	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	80,534	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	83,368	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	86,229	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	89,193	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	92,209	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	95,232	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	98,320	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	101,499	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	104,767	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	108,171	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.

All data sources

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.