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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 JapanOmanHonduras
126,5122,3486,198
126,7552,4036,367
127,0562,4576,535
127,3242,5106,698
127,5582,5626,863
127,6582,6137,028
127,6792,6637,194
127,7622,7137,359
127,9042,7647,522
127,9692,8167,682
127,9582,8717,839
127,9672,9287,991
127,7552,9868,141
127,4763,0478,288
127,2573,1108,429
127,1863,1748,546
127,0343,2408,661
126,8573,3078,770
126,6313,3758,878
126,3683,4449,002
126,0923,5129,154
125,6343,5829,304
125,4273,6519,448
124,7623,6969,590

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