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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 South KoreaUnited Arab Emirates
46,6173,101
47,0083,284
47,3703,458
47,6453,613
47,8923,754
48,0833,882
48,1854,000
48,4384,532
48,6845,623
49,0557,277
49,3088,164
49,5548,152
49,9378,438
50,2008,747
50,4299,077
50,7479,321
51,0159,461
51,2189,587
51,3629,699
51,5859,796
51,7659,879
51,8369,953
51,74510,018
51,73110,099

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 United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.