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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDjiboutiSouth Korea
27364646,617
27466947,008
27569347,370
27671647,645
27869147,892
27965748,083
28066648,185
28167948,438
28269448,684
28370949,055
28572549,308
28674149,554
28775749,937
28877450,200
28979250,429
29081050,747
29182851,015
29184751,218
29286551,362
29388451,585
29489851,765
29491251,836
29592451,745
29593751,731

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

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 Barbados, Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.