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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Japan	Guinea-Bissau
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	126,512	1,183
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	126,755	1,208
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	127,056	1,233
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	127,324	1,260
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	127,558	1,288
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	127,658	1,317
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	127,679	1,348
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	127,762	1,379
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	127,904	1,412
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	127,969	1,446
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	127,958	1,481
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	127,967	1,516
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	127,755	1,551
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	127,476	1,587
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	127,257	1,624
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	127,186	1,663
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	127,034	1,703
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	126,857	1,745
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	126,631	1,789
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	126,368	1,833
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	126,092	1,877
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	125,634	1,920
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	125,427	1,963
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	124,762	2,005

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.

All data sources

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.

No separate list is published for Guinea-Bissau; the database as a whole is cited above.