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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date JapanCongo - KinshasaAlbania
126,51251,1813,085
126,75552,7823,065
127,05654,4533,047
127,32456,1703,038
127,55857,8603,026
127,65859,5993,014
127,67961,4742,998
127,76263,4792,979
127,90465,5902,957
127,96967,8002,934
127,95870,1142,915
127,96772,5502,900
127,75575,1382,892
127,47677,7922,888
127,25780,5342,882
127,18683,3682,876
127,03486,2292,868
126,85789,1932,863
126,63192,2092,861
126,36895,2322,854
126,09298,3202,842
125,634101,4992,825
125,427104,7672,799
124,762108,1712,787

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.