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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Portugal	Romania	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	10,144	22,414	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	10,215	22,262	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	22,106	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	10,344	21,931	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	10,383	21,828	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	10,408	21,704	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	10,427	21,571	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	10,446	21,443	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	10,467	21,129	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	10,482	20,779	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	10,492	20,607	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	10,497	20,485	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	10,481	20,385	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	10,439	20,296	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	10,382	20,224	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	10,326	20,151	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	10,283	20,055	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	10,251	19,938	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	10,226	19,823	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	10,209	19,713	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	10,212	19,622	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	10,223	19,496	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	10,214	19,351	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	10,200	19,266	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

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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.

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.