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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	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.

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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