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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Burkina Faso	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	11,075	277
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	11,405	281
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	11,828	285
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	12,380	288
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	12,829	289
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	13,178	293
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	13,540	296
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	13,917	304
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	14,309	311
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	14,722	319
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	15,152	319
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	15,600	318
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	16,064	319
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	16,563	321
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	17,072	324
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	17,575	327
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	18,094	331
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	18,621	335
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	19,157	343
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	19,698	353
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	20,242	361
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	20,788	366
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	21,336	372
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	21,889	380

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.

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.

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