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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Uganda	Albania	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	23,408	3,085	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	24,195	3,065	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	24,992	3,047	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	25,846	3,038	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	26,661	3,026	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	27,414	3,014	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	28,200	2,998	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	29,021	2,979	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	29,846	2,957	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	30,647	2,934	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	31,469	2,915	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	32,343	2,900	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	33,257	2,892	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	34,234	2,888	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	35,271	2,882	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	36,419	2,876	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	37,673	2,868	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	39,157	2,863	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	40,879	2,861	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	42,329	2,854	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	43,639	2,842	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	45,120	2,825	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	46,645	2,799	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	48,065	2,787	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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.