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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Iran	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	64,704	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	65,411	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	66,167	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	66,689	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	67,807	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	68,480	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	69,325	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	70,158	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	71,040	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	71,942	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	72,888	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	73,826	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	74,625	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	75,446	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	76,418	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	77,521	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	78,652	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	79,700	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	80,725	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	81,721	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	82,685	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	83,614	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	84,505	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	85,108	19,266

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.

Iran

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.