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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Finland	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	5,166	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	5,176	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	5,188	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	5,201	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	5,213	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	5,228	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	5,246	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	5,266	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	5,289	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	5,313	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	5,339	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	5,363	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	5,388	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	5,414	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	5,439	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	5,463	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	5,481	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	5,495	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	5,508	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	5,516	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	5,522	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	5,531	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	5,542	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	5,556	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.

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.