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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Iceland	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	277	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	281	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	285	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	288	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	289	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	293	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	296	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	304	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	311	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	319	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	319	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	318	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	319	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	321	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	324	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	327	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	331	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	335	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	343	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	353	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	361	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	366	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	372	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	380	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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.