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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	China	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	1,248,899	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	1,258,401	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	1,267,178	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	1,275,379	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	1,283,064	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	1,290,620	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	1,298,245	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	1,305,116	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	1,311,877	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	1,318,559	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	1,324,993	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	1,331,357	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	1,339,549	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	1,349,537	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	1,357,520	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	1,366,654	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	1,373,406	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	1,382,401	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	1,390,136	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	1,395,398	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	1,400,035	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	1,402,060	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	1,402,537	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	1,401,693	68,457

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989