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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Finland	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	5,166	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	5,176	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	5,188	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	5,201	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	5,213	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	5,228	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	5,246	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	5,266	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	5,289	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	5,313	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	5,339	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	5,363	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	5,388	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	5,414	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	5,439	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	5,463	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	5,481	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	5,495	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	5,508	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	5,516	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	5,522	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	5,531	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	5,542	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	5,556	10,099

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

No separate list is published for United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.