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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 JapanOmanEthiopia
126,5122,34863,575
126,7552,40365,213
127,0562,45766,889
127,3242,51068,649
127,5582,56270,491
127,6582,61372,389
127,6792,66374,327
127,7622,71376,326
127,9042,76478,411
127,9692,81680,564
127,9582,87182,787
127,9672,92885,096
127,7552,98687,530
127,4763,04790,066
127,2573,11092,632
127,1863,17495,337
127,0343,24098,114
126,8573,307100,858
126,6313,375103,654
126,3683,444106,466
126,0923,512109,267
125,6343,582112,100
125,4273,651114,964
124,7623,696117,924

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