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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Korea	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,617	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	274	47,008	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,370	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	276	47,645	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,892	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	279	48,083	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,185	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,438	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	282	48,684	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,055	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,308	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	286	49,554	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	287	49,937	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	288	50,200	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	50,429	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	290	50,747	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	291	51,015	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	291	51,218	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	292	51,362	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	293	51,585	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	294	51,765	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	294	51,836	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	295	51,745	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,731	9,107

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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