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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Paraguay	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	5,366	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	5,473	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	5,579	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	5,683	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	5,786	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	5,886	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	5,984	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	6,080	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	6,173	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	6,264	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	6,352	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	6,438	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	6,522	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	6,605	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	6,688	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	6,769	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	6,850	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	6,930	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	7,012	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	7,095	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	7,179	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	7,263	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	7,348	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	7,432	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.

All data sources

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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.