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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Saudi Arabia	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,964	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	20,426	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	20,956	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,549	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,189	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,850	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,516	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	24,178	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	24,841	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	25,518	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	26,227	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	27,068	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	27,810	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	28,516	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	29,220	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	29,936	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	30,646	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	31,360	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	32,184	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	32,869	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	33,661	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	34,542	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	33,651	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	34,081	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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.