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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Finland	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	5,166	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	5,176	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	5,188	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	5,201	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	5,213	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	5,228	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	5,246	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	5,266	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	5,289	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	5,313	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	5,339	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	5,363	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	5,388	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	5,414	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	5,439	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	5,463	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	5,481	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	5,495	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	5,508	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	5,516	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	5,522	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	5,531	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	5,542	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	5,556	39,252

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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.