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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Oman	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	2,348	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	2,403	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	2,457	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	2,510	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	2,562	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	2,613	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	2,663	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	2,713	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	2,764	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	2,816	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	2,871	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	2,928	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	2,986	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	3,047	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	3,110	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	3,174	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	3,240	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	3,307	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	3,375	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	3,444	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	3,512	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	3,582	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	3,651	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	3,696	56,210

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.

Myanmar (Burma)

1901-1938: "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma 1870-1940", Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1964, p. 144
1938-1950: E.E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois, 1962, Table 18-1,

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.