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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosHondurasOmanSouth Korea
2736,1982,34846,617
2746,3672,40347,008
2756,5352,45747,370
2766,6982,51047,645
2786,8632,56247,892
2797,0282,61348,083
2807,1942,66348,185
2817,3592,71348,438
2827,5222,76448,684
2837,6822,81649,055
2857,8392,87149,308
2867,9912,92849,554
2878,1412,98649,937
2888,2883,04750,200
2898,4293,11050,429
2908,5463,17450,747
2918,6613,24051,015
2918,7703,30751,218
2928,8783,37551,362
2939,0023,44451,585
2949,1543,51251,765
2949,3043,58251,836
2959,4483,65151,745
2959,5903,69651,731

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

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, Honduras, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.