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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Oman	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	2,348	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	2,403	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	2,457	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	2,510	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	2,562	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	2,613	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	2,663	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	2,713	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	2,764	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	2,816	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	2,871	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	2,928	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	2,986	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	3,047	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	3,110	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	3,174	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	3,240	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	3,307	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	3,375	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	3,444	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	3,512	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	3,582	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	3,651	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	3,696	63,382

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 Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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