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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	Benin
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	6,461
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	6,677
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	6,902
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	7,130
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	7,360
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	7,589
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	7,838
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	8,089
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	8,335
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	8,603
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	8,884
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	9,179
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	9,486
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	9,805
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	10,135
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	10,480
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	10,842
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	11,220
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	11,613
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	12,018
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	12,370
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	12,725
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	13,081
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	13,439

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 Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.