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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 JapanOmanBenin
126,5122,3486,461
126,7552,4036,677
127,0562,4576,902
127,3242,5107,130
127,5582,5627,360
127,6582,6137,589
127,6792,6637,838
127,7622,7138,089
127,9042,7648,335
127,9692,8168,603
127,9582,8718,884
127,9672,9289,179
127,7552,9869,486
127,4763,0479,805
127,2573,11010,135
127,1863,17410,480
127,0343,24010,842
126,8573,30711,220
126,6313,37511,613
126,3683,44412,018
126,0923,51212,370
125,6343,58212,725
125,4273,65113,081
124,7623,69613,439

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 Oman, Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.