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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Denmark	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	5,322	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	5,339	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	5,358	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	5,377	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	5,391	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	5,404	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	5,420	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	5,438	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	5,461	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	5,494	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	5,524	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	5,548	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	5,571	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	5,592	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	5,614	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	5,644	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	5,683	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	5,730	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	5,766	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	5,795	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	5,818	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	5,831	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	5,855	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	5,907	124,762

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

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.