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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Lebanon	Burkina Faso	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,460	11,075	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,499	11,405	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,554	11,828	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,610	12,380	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,665	12,829	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,721	13,178	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,777	13,540	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,853	13,917	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,954	14,309	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,036	14,722	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,082	15,152	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,097	15,600	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,115	16,064	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,206	16,563	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,696	17,072	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,365	17,575	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,640	18,094	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,688	18,621	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,680	19,157	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,562	19,698	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,331	20,242	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,986	20,788	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	4,802	21,336	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	4,713	21,889	124,762

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.

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

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.