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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Mali	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	10,596	152
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	10,833	153
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	10,890	154
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	11,007	155
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	11,307	156
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	11,579	157
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	11,804	157
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	12,043	158
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	12,337	159
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	12,657	160
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	12,986	160
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	13,325	161
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	13,679	162
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	14,040	162
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	14,412	163
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	14,803	163
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	15,210	164
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	15,629	164
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	16,060	165
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	16,507	166
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	16,967	166
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	17,442	167
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	17,930	167
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	18,494	167

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, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.