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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	Hong Kong SAR China
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	46,617	6,587
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	47,008	6,646
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	47,370	6,695
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	47,645	6,725
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	47,892	6,712
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	48,083	6,765
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	48,185	6,794
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	48,438	6,838
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	48,684	6,897
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	49,055	6,938
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	49,308	6,953
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	49,554	7,004
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	49,937	7,052
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	50,200	7,130
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	50,429	7,159
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	50,747	7,209
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	51,015	7,271
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	51,218	7,316
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	51,362	7,372
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	51,585	7,432
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	51,765	7,487
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	51,836	7,460
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	51,745	7,392
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,731	7,387

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.