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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	Ethiopia
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	63,575
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	65,213
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	66,889
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	68,649
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	70,491
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	72,389
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	74,327
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	76,326
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	78,411
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	80,564
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	82,787
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	85,096
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	87,530
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	90,066
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	92,632
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	95,337
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	98,114
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	100,858
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	103,654
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	106,466
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	109,267
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	112,100
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	114,964
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	117,924

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.