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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Belgium	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	10,227	387
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	10,252	390
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	10,288	393
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	10,334	396
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	10,377	398
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	10,422	401
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	10,480	404
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	10,549	405
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	10,627	406
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	10,711	409
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	10,797	412
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	10,897	414
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	11,039	416
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	11,108	420
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	11,160	426
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	11,210	435
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	11,275	445
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	11,332	455
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	11,376	468
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	11,429	485
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	11,491	504
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	11,546	516
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	11,594	518
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	11,695	530

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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