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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Djibouti
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	646
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	669
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	693
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	716
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	691
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	657
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	666
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	679
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	694
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	709
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	725
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	741
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	757
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	774
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	792
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	810
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	828
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	847
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	865
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	884
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	898
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	912
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	924
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	937

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 Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.