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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Japan	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	433	126,512	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	438	126,755	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	443	127,056	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	448	127,324	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	454	127,558	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	460	127,658	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	467	127,679	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	474	127,762	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	482	127,904	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	491	127,969	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	500	127,958	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	509	127,967	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	521	127,755	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	533	127,476	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	547	127,257	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	560	127,186	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	571	127,034	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	586	126,857	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	599	126,631	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	610	126,368	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	623	126,092	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	633	125,634	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	643	125,427	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	651	124,762	19,266

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.