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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Yemen	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	70	16,728	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	71	17,236	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	71	17,762	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	72	18,310	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	72	18,855	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	72	19,410	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	72	20,000	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	72	20,611	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	72	21,236	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	73	21,878	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	73	22,533	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	73	23,195	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	73	23,880	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	73	24,594	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	73	25,311	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	73	26,020	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	74	26,698	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	74	27,347	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	74	27,985	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	74	28,608	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	75	29,216	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	75	29,811	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	76	30,399	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	76	31,058	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 Dominica, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.