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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Switzerland	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	7,258	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	7,296	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	7,332	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	7,384	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	7,438	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	7,488	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	7,532	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	7,579	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	7,647	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	7,738	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	7,825	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	7,884	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	7,959	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	8,044	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	8,137	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	8,237	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	8,332	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	8,423	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	8,502	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	8,565	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	8,626	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	8,689	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	8,756	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	8,834	3,696

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.

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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