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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	5,216

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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.