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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Egypt	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	277	66,001	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	281	67,377	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	285	68,790	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	288	70,269	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	289	71,785	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	293	73,298	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,832	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,432	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,140	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	319	79,945	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	319	81,840	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	318	83,844	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	319	85,969	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	321	88,198	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	324	90,566	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	327	93,009	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	95,432	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	335	97,882	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	343	100,303	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	353	102,617	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	361	104,816	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	366	106,893	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	372	108,871	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	380	110,593	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

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.

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