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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date JapanLaosLuxembourg
126,5125,286433
126,7555,397438
127,0565,499443
127,3245,578448
127,5585,654454
127,6585,746460
127,6795,836467
127,7625,931474
127,9046,035482
127,9696,145491
127,9586,257500
127,9676,368509
127,7556,477521
127,4766,586533
127,2576,695547
127,1866,804560
127,0346,912571
126,8577,019586
126,6317,127599
126,3687,234610
126,0927,343623
125,6347,452633
125,4277,560643
124,7627,666651

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.

No separate list is published for Laos, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.