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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bangladesh	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	51,181	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	52,782	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	54,453	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	56,170	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	57,860	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	59,599	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	61,474	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	63,479	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	65,590	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	67,800	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	70,114	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	72,550	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	75,138	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	77,792	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	80,534	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	83,368	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	86,229	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	89,193	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	92,209	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	95,232	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	98,320	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	101,499	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	104,767	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	108,171	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.

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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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.