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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	146,693

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.