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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Moldova	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	4,244	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	4,199	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	4,154	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	4,108	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	4,059	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	4,013	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	3,966	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	3,919	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	3,873	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	3,829	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	3,788	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	3,748	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	3,709	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	3,671	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	3,633	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	3,595	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	3,558	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	3,522	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	3,485	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	3,448	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	3,412	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	3,376	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	3,339	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	3,570	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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.