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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 BarbadosLuxembourgMoldovaSouth Korea
2734334,24446,617
2744384,19947,008
2754434,15447,370
2764484,10847,645
2784544,05947,892
2794604,01348,083
2804673,96648,185
2814743,91948,438
2824823,87348,684
2834913,82949,055
2855003,78849,308
2865093,74849,554
2875213,70949,937
2885333,67150,200
2895473,63350,429
2905603,59550,747
2915713,55851,015
2915863,52251,218
2925993,48551,362
2936103,44851,585
2946233,41251,765
2946333,37651,836
2956433,33951,745
2956513,57051,731

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, Luxembourg, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.