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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Malaysia	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,132	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,695	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,291	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	276	23,874	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,437	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	279	24,993	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,543	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,086	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,620	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,161	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,715	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,268	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,750	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	288	29,163	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,568	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,977	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,387	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	291	30,782	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	292	31,164	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,539	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	294	31,903	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,257	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	295	32,603	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	295	32,956	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.

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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

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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; the database as a whole is cited above.