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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Mali	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	10,596	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	10,833	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	10,890	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	11,007	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	11,307	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	11,579	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	11,804	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	12,043	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	12,337	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	12,657	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	12,986	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	13,325	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	13,679	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	14,040	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	14,412	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	14,803	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	15,210	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	15,629	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	16,060	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	16,507	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	16,967	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	17,442	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	17,930	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	18,494	9,107

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.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.