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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	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	46,617	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	47,008	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	47,370	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	47,645	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	47,892	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	48,083	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	48,185	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	48,438	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	48,684	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	49,055	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	49,308	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	49,554	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	49,937	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	50,200	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	50,429	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	50,747	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	51,015	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	51,218	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	51,362	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	51,585	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	51,765	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	51,836	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	51,745	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	51,731	46,498

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

No separate list is published for Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.