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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	France
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	68,387

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987