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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	China	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	1,248,899	627
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	1,258,401	659
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	1,267,178	691
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	1,275,379	724
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	1,283,064	757
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	1,290,620	850
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	1,298,245	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	1,305,116	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	1,311,877	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	1,318,559	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	1,324,993	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	1,331,357	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	1,339,549	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	1,349,537	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	1,357,520	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	1,366,654	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	1,373,406	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	1,382,401	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	1,390,136	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	1,395,398	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	1,400,035	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	1,402,060	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	1,402,537	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	1,401,693	2,559

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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