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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Sudan	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	26,168	433
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	26,771	438
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	27,387	443
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	28,017	448
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	28,662	454
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	29,321	460
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	29,996	467
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	30,686	474
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	31,393	482
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	32,137	491
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	33,078	500
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	33,891	509
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	34,568	521
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	35,293	533
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	36,093	547
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	37,058	560
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	38,165	571
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	39,294	586
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	40,512	599
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	41,764	610
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	42,952	623
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	44,121	633
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	45,290	643
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	46,498	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 Sudan, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.