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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	South Korea	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	277	46,617	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	281	47,008	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	285	47,370	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	288	47,645	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	289	47,892	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	293	48,083	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	296	48,185	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	304	48,438	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	311	48,684	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	319	49,055	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	319	49,308	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	318	49,554	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	319	49,937	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	321	50,200	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	324	50,429	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	327	50,747	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	331	51,015	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	335	51,218	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	343	51,362	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	353	51,585	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	361	51,765	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	366	51,836	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	372	51,745	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	380	51,731	2,059

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.

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 Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.