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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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