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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 JapanOmanMongolia
126,5122,3482,433
126,7552,4032,461
127,0562,4572,489
127,3242,5102,519
127,5582,5622,547
127,6582,6132,574
127,6792,6632,602
127,7622,7132,633
127,9042,7642,666
127,9692,8162,702
127,9582,8712,741
127,9672,9282,783
127,7552,9862,827
127,4763,0472,870
127,2573,1102,912
127,1863,1742,953
127,0343,2402,993
126,8573,3073,031
126,6313,3753,068
126,3683,4443,103
126,0923,5123,171
125,6343,5823,231
125,4273,6513,284
124,7623,6963,333

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