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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	Cameroon
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	15,483
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	15,913
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	16,354
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	16,815
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	17,289
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	17,764
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	18,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	18,746
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	19,278
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	19,843
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	20,419
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	21,002
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	21,586
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	22,181
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	22,800
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	23,513
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	24,273
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	24,995
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	25,680
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	26,373
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	27,114
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	27,878
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	28,663
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	29,417

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.