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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 BarbadosGuineaJapan
2737,610126,512
2747,780126,755
2757,821127,056
2767,906127,324
2788,121127,558
2798,317127,658
2808,478127,679
2818,650127,762
2828,860127,904
2839,091127,969
2859,327127,958
2869,571127,967
2879,825127,755
28810,084127,476
28910,351127,257
29010,632127,186
29110,924127,034
29111,225126,857
29211,534126,631
29311,855126,368
29412,160126,092
29412,469125,634
29512,778125,427
29513,087124,762

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 Barbados, Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.