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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Israel	Japan	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	5,927	126,512	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	6,088	126,755	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	6,236	127,056	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	6,366	127,324	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	6,484	127,558	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	6,603	127,658	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	6,723	127,679	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	6,846	127,762	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	6,972	127,904	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	7,100	127,969	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	7,226	127,958	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	7,360	127,967	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	7,498	127,755	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	7,637	127,476	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	7,781	127,257	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	7,931	127,186	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	8,091	127,034	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	8,251	126,857	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	8,412	126,631	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	8,576	126,368	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	8,742	126,092	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	8,899	125,634	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	9,047	125,427	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	9,188	124,762	108,171

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

Israel

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

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.