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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Estonia	South Korea	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	1,378	46,617	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	1,400	47,008	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	1,391	47,370	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	1,382	47,645	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	1,374	47,892	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	1,365	48,083	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	1,357	48,185	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	1,349	48,438	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	1,341	48,684	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	1,337	49,055	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	1,334	49,308	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	1,332	49,554	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	1,328	49,937	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	1,324	50,200	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	1,319	50,429	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	1,314	50,747	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	1,312	51,015	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	1,314	51,218	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	1,314	51,362	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	1,318	51,585	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	1,323	51,765	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	1,327	51,836	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	1,329	51,745	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	1,330	51,731	3,876

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.