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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Mali	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	10,596	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	10,833	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	10,890	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	11,007	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	11,307	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	11,579	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	11,804	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	12,043	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	12,337	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	12,657	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	12,986	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	13,325	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	13,679	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	14,040	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	14,412	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	14,803	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	15,210	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	15,629	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	16,060	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	16,507	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	16,967	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	17,442	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	17,930	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	18,494	6,291

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 Mali, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.