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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	51,181	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	52,782	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	54,453	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	56,170	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	57,860	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	59,599	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	61,474	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	63,479	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	65,590	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	67,800	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	70,114	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	72,550	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	75,138	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	77,792	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	80,534	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	83,368	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	86,229	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	89,193	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	92,209	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	95,232	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	98,320	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	101,499	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	104,767	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	108,171	21,889

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.