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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Oman	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	2,348	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	2,403	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	2,457	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	2,510	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	2,562	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	2,613	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	2,663	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	2,713	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	2,764	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	2,816	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	2,871	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	2,928	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	2,986	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	3,047	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	3,110	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	3,174	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	3,240	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	3,307	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	3,375	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	3,444	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	3,512	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	3,582	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	3,651	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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.