Population, long-run history: compare countries

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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Cyprus
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	818
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	826
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	835
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	845
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	855
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	867
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	879
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	894
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	913
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	937
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	962
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	988
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	1,013
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	1,029
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	1,026
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	1,015
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	1,009
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	1,014
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	1,023
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	1,036
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	1,050
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	1,062
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	1,072
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	1,087

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.

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