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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IranOmanSouth Korea
64,7042,34846,617
65,4112,40347,008
66,1672,45747,370
66,6892,51047,645
67,8072,56247,892
68,4802,61348,083
69,3252,66348,185
70,1582,71348,438
71,0402,76448,684
71,9422,81649,055
72,8882,87149,308
73,8262,92849,554
74,6252,98649,937
75,4463,04750,200
76,4183,11050,429
77,5213,17450,747
78,6523,24051,015
79,7003,30751,218
80,7253,37551,362
81,7213,44451,585
82,6853,51251,765
83,6143,58251,836
84,5053,65151,745
85,1083,69651,731

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

Iran

  • 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.