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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Albania	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	3,085	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	3,065	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	3,047	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	3,038	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	3,026	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	3,014	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	2,998	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	2,979	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	2,957	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	2,934	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	2,915	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	2,900	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	2,892	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	2,888	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	2,882	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	2,876	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	2,868	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	2,863	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	2,861	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	2,854	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	2,842	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	2,825	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	2,799	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	2,787	10,200

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

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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