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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Japan	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	433	126,512	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	438	126,755	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	443	127,056	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	448	127,324	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	454	127,558	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	460	127,658	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	467	127,679	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	474	127,762	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	482	127,904	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	491	127,969	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	500	127,958	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	509	127,967	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	521	127,755	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	533	127,476	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	547	127,257	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	560	127,186	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	571	127,034	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	586	126,857	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	599	126,631	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	610	126,368	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	623	126,092	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	633	125,634	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	643	125,427	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	651	124,762	2,787

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 Luxembourg, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.