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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	United Arab Emirates	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	3,101	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	3,284	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	3,458	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	3,613	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	3,754	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	3,882	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	4,000	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	4,532	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	5,623	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	7,277	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	8,164	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	8,152	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	8,438	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	8,747	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	9,077	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	9,321	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	9,461	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	9,587	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	9,699	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	9,796	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	9,879	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	9,953	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	10,018	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	10,099	108,171

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

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 United Arab Emirates, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.