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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Qatar	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	627	433
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	659	438
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	691	443
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	724	448
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	757	454
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	850	460
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	1,001	467
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	1,153	474
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	1,306	482
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	1,460	491
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	1,615	500
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	1,770	509
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	1,904	521
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	2,010	533
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	2,103	547
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	2,187	560
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	2,261	571
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	2,326	586
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	2,384	599
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	2,435	610
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	2,480	623
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	2,519	633
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	2,553	643
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	2,559	651

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 Qatar, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.