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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Qatar	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	70	627	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	71	659	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	71	691	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	72	724	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	72	757	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	72	850	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	72	1,001	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	72	1,153	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	72	1,306	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	73	1,460	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	73	1,615	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	73	1,770	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	73	1,904	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	73	2,010	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	73	2,103	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	73	2,187	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	74	2,261	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	74	2,326	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	74	2,384	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	74	2,435	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	75	2,480	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	75	2,519	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	76	2,553	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	76	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 Dominica, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.