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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Qatar	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	387	627	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	390	659	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	393	691	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	396	724	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	398	757	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	401	850	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	404	1,001	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	405	1,153	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	406	1,306	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	409	1,460	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	412	1,615	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	414	1,770	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	416	1,904	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	420	2,010	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	426	2,103	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	435	2,187	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	445	2,261	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	455	2,326	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	468	2,384	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	485	2,435	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	504	2,480	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	516	2,519	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	518	2,553	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	530	2,559	124,762

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 Malta, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.