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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date JapanNicaraguaAlbania
126,5124,7783,085
126,7554,8663,065
127,0564,9523,047
127,3245,0363,038
127,5585,1163,026
127,6585,1933,014
127,6795,2672,998
127,7625,3382,979
127,9045,4082,957
127,9695,4762,934
127,9585,5412,915
127,9675,6042,900
127,7555,6662,892
127,4765,7282,888
127,2575,7892,882
127,1865,8492,876
127,0345,9082,868
126,8575,9672,863
126,6316,0262,861
126,3686,0852,854
126,0926,1702,842
125,6346,2552,825
125,4276,3432,799
124,7626,4332,787

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 Nicaragua, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.