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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	South Korea	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	277	46,617	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	281	47,008	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	285	47,370	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	288	47,645	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	289	47,892	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	293	48,083	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	296	48,185	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	304	48,438	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	311	48,684	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	319	49,055	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	319	49,308	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	318	49,554	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	319	49,937	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	321	50,200	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	324	50,429	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	327	50,747	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	331	51,015	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	335	51,218	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	343	51,362	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	353	51,585	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	361	51,765	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	366	51,836	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	372	51,745	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	380	51,731	4,259

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 Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.