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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	3,811	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	3,901	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	3,919	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	3,923	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	3,940	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	3,975	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	3,991	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	3,993	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	3,990	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	3,987	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	3,985	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	3,983	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	3,980	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	3,977	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	3,973	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	3,968	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	3,963	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	3,957	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	3,951	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	3,944	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	3,937	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	3,929	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	3,921	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	3,876	19,266

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.

All data sources

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.