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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Bosnia & Herzegovina	United States
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	3,811	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	3,901	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	3,919	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	3,923	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	3,940	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	3,975	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	3,991	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	3,993	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	3,990	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	3,987	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	3,985	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	3,983	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	3,980	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	3,977	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	3,973	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	3,968	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	3,963	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	3,957	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	3,951	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	3,944	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	3,937	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	3,929	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	3,921	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	3,876	333,288

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).