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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Saudi Arabia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	19,964	273
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	20,426	274
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	20,956	275
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	21,549	276
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	22,189	278
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	22,850	279
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	23,516	280
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	24,178	281
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	24,841	282
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	25,518	283
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	26,227	285
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	27,068	286
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	27,810	287
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	28,516	288
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	29,220	289
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	29,936	290
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	30,646	291
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	31,360	291
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	32,184	292
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	32,869	293
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	33,661	294
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	34,542	294
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	33,651	295
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	34,081	295

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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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