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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Mali	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	10,596	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	10,833	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	10,890	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	11,007	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	11,307	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	11,579	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	11,804	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	12,043	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	12,337	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	12,657	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	12,986	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	13,325	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	13,679	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	14,040	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	14,412	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	14,803	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	15,210	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	15,629	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	16,060	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	16,507	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	16,967	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	17,442	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	17,930	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	18,494	47,625

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.

Spain

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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