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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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.