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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	51,731

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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995