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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Bahrain
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	633
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	648
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	665
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	707
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	773
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	839
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	907
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	974
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	1,043
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	1,096
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	1,133
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	1,168
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	1,202
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	1,236
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	1,268
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	1,301
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	1,333
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	1,365
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	1,396
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	1,428
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	1,459
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	1,489
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	1,511
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	1,521

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.

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