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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	3,811	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	3,901	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	3,919	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	3,923	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	3,940	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	3,975	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	3,991	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	3,993	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	3,990	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	3,987	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	3,985	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	3,983	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	3,980	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	3,977	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	3,973	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	3,968	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	3,963	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	3,957	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	3,951	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	3,944	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	3,937	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	3,929	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	3,921	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	3,876	83,811

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.