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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	South Korea	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	46,617	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	47,008	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	47,370	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	47,645	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	47,892	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	48,083	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	48,185	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	48,438	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	48,684	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	49,055	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	49,308	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	49,554	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	49,937	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	50,200	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	50,429	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	50,747	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	51,015	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	51,218	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	51,362	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	51,585	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	51,765	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	51,836	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	51,745	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,731	19,715

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.