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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ethiopia	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	63,575	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,213	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,889	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	68,649	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	70,491	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	72,389	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,327	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,326	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,411	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	80,564	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	82,787	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	85,096	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	87,530	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	90,066	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	92,632	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	95,337	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	98,114	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	100,858	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	103,654	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	106,466	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	109,267	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	112,100	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	114,964	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	117,924	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 Ethiopia; the database as a whole is cited above.