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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Morocco	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	277	28,400	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	281	28,744	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	285	29,094	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	288	29,447	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	289	29,806	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	293	30,169	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	296	30,552	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	304	30,953	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	311	31,354	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	319	31,754	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	319	32,154	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	318	32,553	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	319	32,951	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	321	33,346	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	324	33,737	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	327	34,124	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	34,511	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	335	34,898	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	343	35,279	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	353	35,653	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	361	36,018	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	366	36,375	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	372	36,723	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,101	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.

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 Morocco; the database as a whole is cited above.