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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 - KinshasaJapanTurkmenistan
51,181126,5124,324
52,782126,7554,385
54,453127,0564,444
56,170127,3244,502
57,860127,5584,556
59,599127,6584,608
61,474127,6794,664
63,479127,7624,719
65,590127,9044,773
67,800127,9694,828
70,114127,9584,884
72,550127,9674,940
75,138127,7554,996
77,792127,4765,053
80,534127,2575,110
83,368127,1865,169
86,229127,0345,227
89,193126,8575,287
92,209126,6315,346
95,232126,3685,405
98,320126,0925,464
101,499125,6345,522
104,767125,4275,579
108,171124,7625,657

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