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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Chile	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	15,140	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	15,340	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	15,513	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	15,686	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	15,859	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	16,029	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	16,222	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	16,364	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	16,536	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	16,700	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	16,864	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	16,999	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	17,189	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	17,378	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	17,545	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	17,720	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	17,904	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	18,099	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	18,350	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	18,681	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	19,035	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	19,385	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	19,604	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	19,715	10,200

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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,