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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date AfghanistanAlbaniaJapan
22,2063,085126,512
22,4613,065126,755
22,5073,047127,056
23,6003,038127,324
25,0053,026127,558
25,6983,014127,658
26,3352,998127,679
27,1542,979127,762
27,3872,957127,904
27,7062,934127,969
28,4842,915127,958
29,1212,900127,967
29,7582,892127,755
30,4202,888127,476
31,1082,882127,257
31,8232,876127,186
32,5642,868127,034
33,3322,863126,857
34,1252,861126,631
34,9412,854126,368
35,9722,842126,092
37,0342,825125,634
38,1272,799125,427
39,2522,787124,762

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

Japan

  • 724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
  • 1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

No separate list is published for Afghanistan, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.