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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	19,266	7,666

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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