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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Japan	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	126,512	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	126,755	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	127,056	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	127,324	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	127,558	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	127,658	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	127,679	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	127,762	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	127,904	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	127,969	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	127,958	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	127,967	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	127,755	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	127,476	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	127,257	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	127,186	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	127,034	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	126,857	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	126,631	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	126,368	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	126,092	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	125,634	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	125,427	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	124,762	11,003

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132