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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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