Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EstoniaSouth KoreaCongo - Kinshasa
1,37846,61751,181
1,40047,00852,782
1,39147,37054,453
1,38247,64556,170
1,37447,89257,860
1,36548,08359,599
1,35748,18561,474
1,34948,43863,479
1,34148,68465,590
1,33749,05567,800
1,33449,30870,114
1,33249,55472,550
1,32849,93775,138
1,32450,20077,792
1,31950,42980,534
1,31450,74783,368
1,31251,01586,229
1,31451,21889,193
1,31451,36292,209
1,31851,58595,232
1,32351,76598,320
1,32751,836101,499
1,32951,745104,767
1,33051,731108,171

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

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