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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 JapanOmanPuerto Rico
126,5122,3483,800
126,7552,4033,811
127,0562,4573,819
127,3242,5103,824
127,5582,5623,826
127,6582,6133,827
127,6792,6633,822
127,7622,7133,805
127,9042,7643,783
127,9692,8163,761
127,9582,8713,741
127,9672,9283,722
127,7552,9863,679
127,4763,0473,636
127,2573,1103,589
127,1863,1743,534
127,0343,2403,473
126,8573,3073,411
126,6313,3753,352
126,3683,4443,295
126,0923,5123,268
125,6343,5823,247
125,4273,6513,232
124,7623,6963,228

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.