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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Qatar	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	627	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	659	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	691	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	724	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	757	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	850	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	1,001	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	1,153	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	1,306	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	1,460	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	1,615	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	1,770	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	1,904	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,010	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,103	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,187	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,261	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	2,326	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	2,384	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	2,435	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	2,480	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	2,519	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	2,553	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	2,559	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 Congo - Kinshasa, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.