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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Albania	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	3,085	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	3,065	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	3,047	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	3,038	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	3,026	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	3,014	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	2,998	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	2,979	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	2,957	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	2,934	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	2,915	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	2,900	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	2,892	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	2,888	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	2,882	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	2,876	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	2,868	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	2,863	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	2,861	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	2,854	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	2,842	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	2,825	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	2,799	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	2,787	51,731

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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.