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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Oman	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	2,348	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	2,403	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	2,457	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	2,510	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	2,562	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	2,613	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	2,663	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	2,713	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	2,764	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	2,816	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	2,871	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	2,928	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	2,986	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	3,047	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	3,110	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	3,174	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	3,240	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	3,307	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	3,375	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	3,444	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	3,512	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	3,582	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	3,651	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.