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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	Liberia	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	2,741	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	2,847	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	2,917	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	2,978	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	2,983	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	3,005	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	3,138	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	3,311	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	3,469	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	3,603	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	3,708	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	3,817	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	3,984	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	4,141	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	4,244	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	4,348	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	4,460	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	4,576	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	4,689	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	4,810	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	4,904	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	5,005	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	5,109	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	5,216	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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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.