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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	68,093

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.

United Kingdom

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972