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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Oman	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	2,348	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	2,403	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	2,457	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	2,510	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	2,562	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	2,613	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	2,663	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	2,713	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	2,764	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	2,816	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	2,871	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	2,928	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	2,986	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	3,047	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	3,110	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	3,174	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	3,240	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	3,307	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	3,375	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	3,444	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	3,512	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	3,582	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	3,651	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	3,696	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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.