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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 GermanyJapanKyrgyzstan
81,439126,5124,773
81,474126,7554,826
81,534127,0564,865
81,595127,3244,901
81,566127,5584,946
81,473127,6584,999
81,354127,6795,048
81,190127,7625,096
81,009127,9045,137
80,781127,9695,180
80,500127,9585,238
80,301127,9675,289
80,292127,7555,328
80,443127,4765,373
80,663127,2575,423
81,000127,1865,478
81,704127,0345,537
82,366126,8575,598
82,674126,6315,658
82,923126,3685,717
83,110126,0925,774
83,178125,6345,830
83,213125,4275,884
83,811124,7625,976

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 Kyrgyzstan; the database as a whole is cited above.