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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Germany	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	81,439	433
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	81,474	438
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	81,534	443
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	81,595	448
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	81,566	454
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	81,473	460
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	81,354	467
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	81,190	474
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	81,009	482
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	80,781	491
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	80,500	500
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	80,301	509
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	80,292	521
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	80,443	533
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	80,663	547
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	81,000	560
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	81,704	571
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	82,366	586
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	82,674	599
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	82,923	610
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	83,110	623
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	83,178	633
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	83,213	643
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	83,811	651

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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