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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 Congo - KinshasaJapanQatar
51,181126,512627
52,782126,755659
54,453127,056691
56,170127,324724
57,860127,558757
59,599127,658850
61,474127,6791,001
63,479127,7621,153
65,590127,9041,306
67,800127,9691,460
70,114127,9581,615
72,550127,9671,770
75,138127,7551,904
77,792127,4762,010
80,534127,2572,103
83,368127,1862,187
86,229127,0342,261
89,193126,8572,326
92,209126,6312,384
95,232126,3682,435
98,320126,0922,480
101,499125,6342,519
104,767125,4272,553
108,171124,7622,559

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