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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 North KoreaOmanCentral African Republic
22,5942,3483,889
22,7852,4033,980
22,9772,4574,054
23,1652,5104,128
23,3302,5624,215
23,4772,6134,289
23,6212,6634,363
23,7642,7134,449
23,9082,7644,544
24,0512,8164,641
24,1912,8714,742
24,3262,9284,845
24,4572,9864,950
24,5893,0475,057
24,7203,1105,167
24,8523,1745,278
24,9833,2405,392
25,1153,3075,507
25,2483,3755,625
25,3813,4445,745
25,4973,5125,874
25,6083,5826,025
25,7113,6516,154
25,8083,6966,291

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

North Korea

  • 1911-1940: 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.
  • 1990-2011: 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.

No separate list is published for Oman, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.