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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Saudi Arabia	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	19,964	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	20,426	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	20,956	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	21,549	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	22,189	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	22,850	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	23,516	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	24,178	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	24,841	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	25,518	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	26,227	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	27,068	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	27,810	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	28,516	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	29,220	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	29,936	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	30,646	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	31,360	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	32,184	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	32,869	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	33,661	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	34,542	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	33,651	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	34,081	18,494

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.