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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Afghanistan	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	22,206	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	22,461	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	22,507	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	23,600	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	25,005	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	25,698	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	26,335	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	27,154	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	27,387	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	27,706	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	28,484	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	29,121	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	29,758	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	30,420	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	31,108	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	31,823	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	32,564	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	33,332	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	34,125	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	34,941	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	35,972	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	37,034	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	38,127	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	39,252	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

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, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.