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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Israel	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,927	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,088	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,236	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	6,366	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	6,484	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	6,603	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	6,723	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	6,846	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,972	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,100	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,226	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,360	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,498	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	7,637	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,781	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	7,931	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,091	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,251	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,412	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,576	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,742	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,899	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,047	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,188	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.

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.