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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Japan	Costa Rica
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	126,512	3,785
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	126,755	3,867
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	127,056	3,951
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	127,324	4,021
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	127,558	4,079
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	127,658	4,145
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	127,679	4,212
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	127,762	4,278
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	127,904	4,338
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	127,969	4,400
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	127,958	4,467
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	127,967	4,544
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	127,755	4,587
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	127,476	4,648
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	127,257	4,707
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	127,186	4,768
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	127,034	4,827
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	126,857	4,885
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	126,631	4,942
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	126,368	4,998
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	126,092	5,052
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	125,634	5,105
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	125,427	5,158
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	124,762	5,185

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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 Costa Rica; the database as a whole is cited above.