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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 JapanOmanLiberia
126,5122,3482,741
126,7552,4032,847
127,0562,4572,917
127,3242,5102,978
127,5582,5622,983
127,6582,6133,005
127,6792,6633,138
127,7622,7133,311
127,9042,7643,469
127,9692,8163,603
127,9582,8713,708
127,9672,9283,817
127,7552,9863,984
127,4763,0474,141
127,2573,1104,244
127,1863,1744,348
127,0343,2404,460
126,8573,3074,576
126,6313,3754,689
126,3683,4444,810
126,0923,5124,904
125,6343,5825,005
125,4273,6515,109
124,7623,6965,216

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.

Liberia

  • 1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.