Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date JapanTrinidad & TobagoBurkina Faso
126,5121,30111,075
126,7551,30311,405
127,0561,30811,828
127,3241,31412,380
127,5581,32012,829
127,6581,32613,178
127,6791,33213,540
127,7621,33813,917
127,9041,34414,309
127,9691,35214,722
127,9581,35915,152
127,9671,36515,600
127,7551,37216,064
127,4761,37916,563
127,2571,38617,072
127,1861,39217,575
127,0341,39918,094
126,8571,40518,621
126,6311,41119,157
126,3681,43619,698
126,0921,45220,242
125,6341,44820,788
125,4271,45021,336
124,7621,45621,889

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.

All data sources

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.