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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date TürkiyeCongo - KinshasaHong Kong SAR China
65,02051,1816,587
65,94952,7826,646
66,86954,4536,695
67,72856,1706,725
68,54157,8606,712
69,36659,5996,765
70,22461,4746,794
71,10663,4796,838
71,99265,5906,897
72,90967,8006,938
73,92270,1146,953
75,05472,5507,004
76,16475,1387,052
77,14177,7927,130
78,13880,5347,159
79,19983,3687,209
80,26286,2297,271
81,35089,1937,316
82,41292,2097,372
83,53595,2327,432
84,73798,3207,487
85,564101,4997,460
86,346104,7677,392
87,201108,1717,387

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.