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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Japan	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	126,512	433
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	126,755	438
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	127,056	443
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	127,324	448
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	127,558	454
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	127,658	460
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	127,679	467
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	127,762	474
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	127,904	482
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	127,969	491
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	127,958	500
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	127,967	509
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	127,755	521
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	127,476	533
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	127,257	547
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	127,186	560
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	127,034	571
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	126,857	586
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	126,631	599
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	126,368	610
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	126,092	623
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	125,634	633
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	125,427	643
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	124,762	651

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.