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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Burkina Faso	Belarus
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	11,075	10,064
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	11,405	10,034
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	11,828	10,000
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	12,380	9,955
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	12,829	9,905
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	13,178	9,856
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	13,540	9,807
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	13,917	9,764
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	14,309	9,734
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	14,722	9,713
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	15,152	9,697
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	15,600	9,681
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	16,064	9,662
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	16,563	9,643
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	17,072	9,624
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	17,575	9,605
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	18,094	9,585
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	18,621	9,564
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	19,157	9,542
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	19,698	9,519
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	20,242	9,495
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	20,788	9,469
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	21,336	9,442
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	21,889	9,400

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