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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date JapanTurkmenistanCongo - Kinshasa
126,5124,32451,181
126,7554,38552,782
127,0564,44454,453
127,3244,50256,170
127,5584,55657,860
127,6584,60859,599
127,6794,66461,474
127,7624,71963,479
127,9044,77365,590
127,9694,82867,800
127,9584,88470,114
127,9674,94072,550
127,7554,99675,138
127,4765,05377,792
127,2575,11080,534
127,1865,16983,368
127,0345,22786,229
126,8575,28789,193
126,6315,34692,209
126,3685,40595,232
126,0925,46498,320
125,6345,522101,499
125,4275,579104,767
124,7625,657108,171

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.

No separate list is published for Turkmenistan, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.