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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Poland	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	38,358	387
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	38,344	390
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	38,339	393
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	38,320	396
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	38,283	398
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	38,268	401
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	38,249	404
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	38,220	405
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	38,204	406
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	38,204	409
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	38,572	412
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	38,606	414
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	38,615	416
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	38,623	420
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	38,591	426
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	38,573	435
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	38,544	445
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	38,516	455
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	38,511	468
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	38,502	485
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	38,475	504
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	38,443	516
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	38,250	518
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	37,914	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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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