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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 OmanCongo - KinshasaJapan
2,34851,181126,512
2,40352,782126,755
2,45754,453127,056
2,51056,170127,324
2,56257,860127,558
2,61359,599127,658
2,66361,474127,679
2,71363,479127,762
2,76465,590127,904
2,81667,800127,969
2,87170,114127,958
2,92872,550127,967
2,98675,138127,755
3,04777,792127,476
3,11080,534127,257
3,17483,368127,186
3,24086,229127,034
3,30789,193126,857
3,37592,209126,631
3,44495,232126,368
3,51298,320126,092
3,582101,499125,634
3,651104,767125,427
3,696108,171124,762

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 Oman, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.