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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date TürkiyeLibyaCongo - Kinshasa
65,0204,99351,181
65,9495,11652,782
66,8695,23754,453
67,7285,35756,170
68,5415,47657,860
69,3665,59559,599
70,2245,71561,474
71,1065,83563,479
71,9925,96765,590
72,9096,11567,800
73,9226,27070,114
75,0546,43272,550
76,1646,14475,138
77,1415,84977,792
78,1386,01080,534
79,1996,16383,368
80,2626,29186,229
81,3506,41589,193
82,4126,54992,209
83,5356,68995,232
84,7376,82698,320
85,5646,960101,499
86,3467,088104,767
87,2017,169108,171

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.

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