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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Romania	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	22,414	433
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	22,262	438
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	22,106	443
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	21,931	448
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	21,828	454
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	21,704	460
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	21,571	467
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	21,443	474
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	21,129	482
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	20,779	491
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	20,607	500
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	20,485	509
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	20,385	521
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	20,296	533
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	20,224	547
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	20,151	560
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	20,055	571
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	19,938	586
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	19,823	599
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	19,713	610
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	19,622	623
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	19,496	633
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	19,351	643
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	19,266	651

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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