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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Oman	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	2,348	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	2,403	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	2,457	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	2,510	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	2,562	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	2,613	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	2,663	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	2,713	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	2,764	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	2,816	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	2,871	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	2,928	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	2,986	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	3,047	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	3,110	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	3,174	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	3,240	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	3,307	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	3,375	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	3,444	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	3,512	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	3,582	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	3,651	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	3,696	48,065

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.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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