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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Japan	Saudi Arabia	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	126,512	19,964	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	126,755	20,426	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	127,056	20,956	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	127,324	21,549	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	127,558	22,189	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	127,658	22,850	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	127,679	23,516	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	127,762	24,178	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	127,904	24,841	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	127,969	25,518	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	127,958	26,227	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	127,967	27,068	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	127,755	27,810	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	127,476	28,516	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	127,257	29,220	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	127,186	29,936	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	127,034	30,646	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	126,857	31,360	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	126,631	32,184	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	126,368	32,869	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	126,092	33,661	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	125,634	34,542	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	125,427	33,651	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	124,762	34,081	19,266

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.

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

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.