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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cambodia	Congo - Kinshasa	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	12,122	51,181	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	12,317	52,782	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	12,504	54,453	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	12,691	56,170	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	12,881	57,860	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	13,076	59,599	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	13,276	61,474	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	13,461	63,479	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	13,630	65,590	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	13,808	67,800	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	13,990	70,114	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	14,162	72,550	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	14,322	75,138	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	14,480	77,792	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	14,637	80,534	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	14,793	83,368	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	14,994	86,229	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	15,238	89,193	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	15,480	92,209	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	15,717	95,232	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	15,944	98,320	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	16,149	101,499	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	16,338	104,767	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	16,514	108,171	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

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 Cambodia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.