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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Burkina Faso	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	11,075	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	11,405	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	11,828	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	12,380	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	12,829	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	13,178	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	13,540	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	13,917	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	14,309	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	14,722	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	15,152	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	15,600	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	16,064	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	16,563	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	17,072	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	17,575	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	18,094	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	18,621	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	19,157	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	19,698	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	20,242	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	20,788	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	21,336	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	21,889	4,713

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.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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