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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	3,811	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	3,901	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	3,919	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	3,923	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	3,940	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	3,975	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	3,991	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	3,993	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	3,990	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	3,987	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	3,985	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	3,983	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	3,980	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	3,977	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	3,973	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	3,968	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	3,963	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	3,957	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	3,951	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	3,944	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	3,937	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	3,929	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	3,921	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	3,876	38,685

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

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.