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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	Moldova	Japan	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,244	126,512	433
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,199	126,755	438
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,154	127,056	443
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,108	127,324	448
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,059	127,558	454
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,013	127,658	460
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,966	127,679	467
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,919	127,762	474
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,873	127,904	482
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,829	127,969	491
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,788	127,958	500
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,748	127,967	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,709	127,755	521
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,671	127,476	533
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,633	127,257	547
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,595	127,186	560
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,558	127,034	571
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,522	126,857	586
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,485	126,631	599
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,448	126,368	610
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,412	126,092	623
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,376	125,634	633
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,339	125,427	643
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,570	124,762	651

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

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, Moldova, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.