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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Mauritania	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,437	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,501	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,566	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,632	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,699	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,768	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,838	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,909	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,981	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,055	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,129	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,205	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,282	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	3,359	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	3,438	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	3,517	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	3,597	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	3,677	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	3,759	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	3,840	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	3,942	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	4,045	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	4,150	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	4,259	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.

All data sources

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, Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.