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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Moldova	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	4,244	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	4,199	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	4,154	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	4,108	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	4,059	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	4,013	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	3,966	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	3,919	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	3,873	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	3,829	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	3,788	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	3,748	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	3,709	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	3,671	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	3,633	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	3,595	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	3,558	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	3,522	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	3,485	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	3,448	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	3,412	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	3,376	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	3,339	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	3,570	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.

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