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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Yemen	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	277	16,728	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	281	17,236	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	285	17,762	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	288	18,310	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	289	18,855	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	293	19,410	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	296	20,000	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	304	20,611	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,236	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	319	21,878	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	319	22,533	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	318	23,195	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	319	23,880	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,594	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	324	25,311	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	327	26,020	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	26,698	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	335	27,347	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	343	27,985	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	353	28,608	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	361	29,216	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	366	29,811	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	372	30,399	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	380	31,058	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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.