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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Thailand	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	59,748	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	60,165	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	60,746	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	61,323	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	61,884	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	62,425	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	62,956	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	63,467	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	63,937	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	64,381	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	64,804	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	65,208	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	65,599	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	65,970	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	66,332	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	66,673	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	66,975	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	67,250	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	67,506	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	67,750	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	67,975	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	68,180	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	68,366	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	68,457	3,876

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.

All data sources

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project