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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Saudi Arabia	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	19,964	138
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	20,426	141
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	20,956	144
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	21,549	147
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	22,189	151
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	22,850	154
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	23,516	158
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	24,178	161
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	24,841	165
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	25,518	168
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	26,227	172
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	27,068	176
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	27,810	180
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	28,516	183
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	29,220	187
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	29,936	190
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	30,646	194
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	31,360	198
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	32,184	201
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	32,869	204
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	33,661	208
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	34,542	212
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	33,651	216
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	34,081	220

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 São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.