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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 - KinshasaJapanYemen
51,181126,51216,728
52,782126,75517,236
54,453127,05617,762
56,170127,32418,310
57,860127,55818,855
59,599127,65819,410
61,474127,67920,000
63,479127,76220,611
65,590127,90421,236
67,800127,96921,878
70,114127,95822,533
72,550127,96723,195
75,138127,75523,880
77,792127,47624,594
80,534127,25725,311
83,368127,18626,020
86,229127,03426,698
89,193126,85727,347
92,209126,63127,985
95,232126,36828,608
98,320126,09229,216
101,499125,63429,811
104,767125,42730,399
108,171124,76231,058

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