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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Cameroon	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	15,483	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	15,913	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	16,354	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	16,815	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	17,289	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	17,764	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	18,249	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	18,746	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	19,278	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	19,843	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,419	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	21,002	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	21,586	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	22,181	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	22,800	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	23,513	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	24,273	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	24,995	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	25,680	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	26,373	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	27,114	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	27,878	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	28,663	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	29,417	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.

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 Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.