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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 JapanLithuaniaCameroon
126,5123,41915,483
126,7553,39515,913
127,0563,36716,354
127,3243,34016,815
127,5583,31317,289
127,6583,27617,764
127,6793,22318,249
127,7623,17218,746
127,9043,13419,278
127,9693,10219,843
127,9583,06820,419
127,9673,00421,002
127,7552,93721,586
127,4762,89822,181
127,2572,86922,800
127,1862,84423,513
127,0342,81824,273
126,8572,78224,995
126,6312,74425,680
126,3682,71826,373
126,0922,71027,114
125,6342,71127,878
125,4272,72428,663
124,7622,74829,417

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, Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.