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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Congo - Kinshasa	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	51,181	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	52,782	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	54,453	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	56,170	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	57,860	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	59,599	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	61,474	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	63,479	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	65,590	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	67,800	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	70,114	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	72,550	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	75,138	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	77,792	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	80,534	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	83,368	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	86,229	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	89,193	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	92,209	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	95,232	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	98,320	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	101,499	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	104,767	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	108,171	13,087

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.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.