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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 - KinshasaCambodia
126,51251,18112,122
126,75552,78212,317
127,05654,45312,504
127,32456,17012,691
127,55857,86012,881
127,65859,59913,076
127,67961,47413,276
127,76263,47913,461
127,90465,59013,630
127,96967,80013,808
127,95870,11413,990
127,96772,55014,162
127,75575,13814,322
127,47677,79214,480
127,25780,53414,637
127,18683,36814,793
127,03486,22914,994
126,85789,19315,238
126,63192,20915,480
126,36895,23215,717
126,09298,32015,944
125,634101,49916,149
125,427104,76716,338
124,762108,17116,514

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, Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.