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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cyprus	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	818	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	826	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	835	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	845	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	855	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	867	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	879	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	894	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	913	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	937	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	962	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	988	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	1,013	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	1,029	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	1,026	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	1,015	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	1,009	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	1,014	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	1,023	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	1,036	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	1,050	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	1,062	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	1,072	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	1,087	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 Cyprus; the database as a whole is cited above.