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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	South Korea	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	46,617	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	47,008	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	47,370	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	47,645	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	47,892	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	48,083	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	48,185	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	48,438	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	48,684	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	49,055	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	49,308	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	49,554	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	49,937	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	50,200	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	50,429	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	50,747	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	51,015	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	51,218	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	51,362	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	51,585	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	51,765	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	51,836	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	51,745	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	51,731	108,171

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

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