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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Senegal	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,070	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,305	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,576	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,864	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	289	11,172	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	293	11,498	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	296	11,839	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	304	12,204	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	311	12,584	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	319	12,978	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	13,382	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	318	13,794	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	319	14,226	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	321	14,668	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,121	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,589	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	331	16,066	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,549	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	343	17,044	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	353	17,535	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	361	18,021	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	366	18,518	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,016	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,512	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 Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.