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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Germany	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	81,439	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	81,474	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	81,534	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	81,595	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	81,566	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	81,473	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	81,354	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	81,190	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	81,009	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	80,781	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	80,500	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	80,301	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	80,292	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	80,443	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	80,663	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	81,000	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	81,704	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	82,366	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	82,674	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	82,923	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	83,110	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	83,178	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	83,213	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	83,811	108,171

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.