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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 JapanLithuaniaCongo - Kinshasa
126,5123,41951,181
126,7553,39552,782
127,0563,36754,453
127,3243,34056,170
127,5583,31357,860
127,6583,27659,599
127,6793,22361,474
127,7623,17263,479
127,9043,13465,590
127,9693,10267,800
127,9583,06870,114
127,9673,00472,550
127,7552,93775,138
127,4762,89877,792
127,2572,86980,534
127,1862,84483,368
127,0342,81886,229
126,8572,78289,193
126,6312,74492,209
126,3682,71895,232
126,0922,71098,320
125,6342,711101,499
125,4272,724104,767
124,7622,748108,171

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.

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