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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Cambodia	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,122	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,317	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,504	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,691	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,881	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,076	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,276	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,461	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	13,630	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	13,808	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	13,990	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,162	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	14,322	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	14,480	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	14,637	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	14,793	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	14,994	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	15,238	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	15,480	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	15,717	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	15,944	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,149	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	16,338	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	16,514	124,762

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 Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.