Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	108,171	19,266

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.

All data sources

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.