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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Oman	Dominica
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	2,348	70
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	2,403	71
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	2,457	71
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	2,510	72
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	2,562	72
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	2,613	72
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	2,663	72
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	2,713	72
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	2,764	72
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	2,816	73
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	2,871	73
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	2,928	73
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	2,986	73
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	3,047	73
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	3,110	73
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	3,174	73
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	3,240	74
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	3,307	74
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	3,375	74
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	3,444	74
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	3,512	75
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	3,582	75
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	3,651	76
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	3,696	76

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, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.