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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 Central African RepublicBosnia & HerzegovinaJapan
3,8893,811126,512
3,9803,901126,755
4,0543,919127,056
4,1283,923127,324
4,2153,940127,558
4,2893,975127,658
4,3633,991127,679
4,4493,993127,762
4,5443,990127,904
4,6413,987127,969
4,7423,985127,958
4,8453,983127,967
4,9503,980127,755
5,0573,977127,476
5,1673,973127,257
5,2783,968127,186
5,3923,963127,034
5,5073,957126,857
5,6253,951126,631
5,7453,944126,368
5,8743,937126,092
6,0253,929125,634
6,1543,921125,427
6,2913,876124,762

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.