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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	South Korea	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	46,617	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	47,008	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	47,370	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	47,645	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	47,892	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	48,083	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	48,185	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	48,438	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	48,684	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	49,055	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	49,308	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	49,554	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	49,937	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	50,200	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	50,429	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	50,747	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	51,015	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	51,218	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	51,362	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	51,585	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	51,765	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	51,836	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	51,745	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	51,731	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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.