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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaAlbaniaJapan
3,8113,085126,512
3,9013,065126,755
3,9193,047127,056
3,9233,038127,324
3,9403,026127,558
3,9753,014127,658
3,9912,998127,679
3,9932,979127,762
3,9902,957127,904
3,9872,934127,969
3,9852,915127,958
3,9832,900127,967
3,9802,892127,755
3,9772,888127,476
3,9732,882127,257
3,9682,876127,186
3,9632,868127,034
3,9572,863126,857
3,9512,861126,631
3,9442,854126,368
3,9372,842126,092
3,9292,825125,634
3,9212,799125,427
3,8762,787124,762

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.