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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	51,731

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995