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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Albania	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	3,085	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	3,065	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	3,047	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	3,038	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	3,026	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	3,014	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	2,998	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	2,979	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	2,957	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	2,934	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	2,915	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	2,900	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	2,892	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	2,888	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	2,882	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	2,876	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	2,868	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	2,863	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	2,861	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	2,854	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	2,842	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	2,825	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	2,799	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	2,787	19,715

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.