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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Benin	Congo - Kinshasa	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	6,461	51,181	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	6,677	52,782	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	6,902	54,453	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	7,130	56,170	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	7,360	57,860	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	7,589	59,599	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	7,838	61,474	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	8,089	63,479	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	8,335	65,590	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	8,603	67,800	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	8,884	70,114	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	9,179	72,550	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	9,486	75,138	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	9,805	77,792	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	10,135	80,534	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	10,480	83,368	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	10,842	86,229	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	11,220	89,193	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	11,613	92,209	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	12,018	95,232	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	12,370	98,320	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	12,725	101,499	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	13,081	104,767	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	13,439	108,171	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

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 Benin, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.