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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	South Korea	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	46,617	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	47,008	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	47,370	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	47,645	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	47,892	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	48,083	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	48,185	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	48,438	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	48,684	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	49,055	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	49,308	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	49,554	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	49,937	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	50,200	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	50,429	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	50,747	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	51,015	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	51,218	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	51,362	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	51,585	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	51,765	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	51,836	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	51,745	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	51,731	51,332

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978