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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chad	Türkiye	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	7,559	65,020	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	7,821	65,949	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	8,092	66,869	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	8,395	67,728	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	8,763	68,541	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	9,191	69,366	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	9,594	70,224	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	9,967	71,106	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	10,338	71,992	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	10,728	72,909	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	11,139	73,922	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	11,550	75,054	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	11,983	76,164	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	12,427	77,141	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	12,895	78,138	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	13,379	79,199	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	13,823	80,262	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	14,277	81,350	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	14,765	82,412	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	15,252	83,535	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	15,750	84,737	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	16,257	85,564	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	16,776	86,346	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	17,307	87,201	21,889

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 Chad, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.