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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Moldova	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	4,244	152
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	4,199	153
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	4,154	154
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	4,108	155
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	4,059	156
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	4,013	157
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	3,966	157
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	3,919	158
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	3,873	159
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	3,829	160
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	3,788	160
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	3,748	161
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	3,709	162
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	3,671	162
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	3,633	163
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	3,595	163
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	3,558	164
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	3,522	164
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	3,485	165
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	3,448	166
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	3,412	166
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	3,376	167
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	3,339	167
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	3,570	167

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 Moldova, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.