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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Laos	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	5,286	387
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	5,397	390
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	5,499	393
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	5,578	396
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	5,654	398
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	5,746	401
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	5,836	404
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	5,931	405
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	6,035	406
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	6,145	409
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	6,257	412
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	6,368	414
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	6,477	416
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	6,586	420
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	6,695	426
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	6,804	435
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	6,912	445
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	7,019	455
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	7,127	468
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	7,234	485
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	7,343	504
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	7,452	516
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	7,560	518
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	7,666	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 Laos, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.