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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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.