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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.

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.