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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Uganda	Türkiye	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	23,408	65,020	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	24,195	65,949	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	24,992	66,869	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	25,846	67,728	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	26,661	68,541	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	27,414	69,366	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	28,200	70,224	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	29,021	71,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	29,846	71,992	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	30,647	72,909	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	31,469	73,922	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	32,343	75,054	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	33,257	76,164	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	34,234	77,141	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	35,271	78,138	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	36,419	79,199	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	37,673	80,262	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	39,157	81,350	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	40,879	82,412	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	42,329	83,535	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	43,639	84,737	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	45,120	85,564	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	46,645	86,346	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	48,065	87,201	3,570

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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.