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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	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	46,617	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	47,008	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	47,370	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	47,645	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	47,892	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	48,083	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	48,185	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	48,438	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	48,684	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	49,055	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	49,308	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	49,554	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	49,937	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	50,200	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	50,429	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	50,747	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	51,015	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	51,218	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	51,362	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	51,585	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	51,765	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	51,836	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	51,745	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,731	6,910

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.