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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date YemenOmanJapan
16,7282,348126,512
17,2362,403126,755
17,7622,457127,056
18,3102,510127,324
18,8552,562127,558
19,4102,613127,658
20,0002,663127,679
20,6112,713127,762
21,2362,764127,904
21,8782,816127,969
22,5332,871127,958
23,1952,928127,967
23,8802,986127,755
24,5943,047127,476
25,3113,110127,257
26,0203,174127,186
26,6983,240127,034
27,3473,307126,857
27,9853,375126,631
28,6083,444126,368
29,2163,512126,092
29,8113,582125,634
30,3993,651125,427
31,0583,696124,762

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

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 Yemen, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.