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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Oman	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	2,348	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	2,403	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	2,457	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	2,510	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	2,562	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	2,613	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	2,663	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	2,713	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	2,764	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	2,816	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	2,871	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	2,928	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	2,986	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	3,047	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	3,110	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	3,174	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	3,240	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	3,307	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	3,375	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	3,444	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	3,512	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	3,582	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	3,651	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	3,696	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

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.