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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date CambodiaSouth KoreaCongo - Kinshasa
12,12246,61751,181
12,31747,00852,782
12,50447,37054,453
12,69147,64556,170
12,88147,89257,860
13,07648,08359,599
13,27648,18561,474
13,46148,43863,479
13,63048,68465,590
13,80849,05567,800
13,99049,30870,114
14,16249,55472,550
14,32249,93775,138
14,48050,20077,792
14,63750,42980,534
14,79350,74783,368
14,99451,01586,229
15,23851,21889,193
15,48051,36292,209
15,71751,58595,232
15,94451,76598,320
16,14951,836101,499
16,33851,745104,767
16,51451,731108,171

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.