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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Denmark	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	5,322	387
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	5,339	390
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	5,358	393
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	5,377	396
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	5,391	398
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	5,404	401
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	5,420	404
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	5,438	405
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	5,461	406
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	5,494	409
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	5,524	412
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	5,548	414
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	5,571	416
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	5,592	420
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	5,614	426
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	5,644	435
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	5,683	445
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	5,730	455
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	5,766	468
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	5,795	485
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	5,818	504
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	5,831	516
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	5,855	518
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	5,907	530

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 Denmark, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.