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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	19,266	7,666

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.

All data sources

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.