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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Kingdom	Germany	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	81,439	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	81,474	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	81,534	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	81,595	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	81,566	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	81,473	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	81,354	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	81,190	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	81,009	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	80,781	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	80,500	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	80,301	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	80,292	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	80,443	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	80,663	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	81,000	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	81,704	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	82,366	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	82,674	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	82,923	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	83,110	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	83,178	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	83,213	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	83,811	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

United Kingdom

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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.