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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	Morocco
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	28,400
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	28,744
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	29,094
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	29,447
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	29,806
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	30,169
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	30,552
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	30,953
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	31,354
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	31,754
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	32,154
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	32,553
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	32,951
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	33,346
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	33,737
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	34,124
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	34,511
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	34,898
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	35,279
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	35,653
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	36,018
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	36,375
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	36,723
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	37,101

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 Morocco; the database as a whole is cited above.