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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Burkina Faso	Costa Rica
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	11,075	3,785
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	11,405	3,867
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	11,828	3,951
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	12,380	4,021
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	12,829	4,079
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	13,178	4,145
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	13,540	4,212
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	13,917	4,278
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	14,309	4,338
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	14,722	4,400
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	15,152	4,467
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	15,600	4,544
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	16,064	4,587
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	16,563	4,648
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	17,072	4,707
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	17,575	4,768
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	18,094	4,827
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	18,621	4,885
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	19,157	4,942
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	19,698	4,998
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	20,242	5,052
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	20,788	5,105
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	21,336	5,158
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	21,889	5,185

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, Costa Rica; the database as a whole is cited above.