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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Barbados	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	273	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	274	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	275	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	276	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	278	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	279	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	280	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	281	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	282	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	283	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	285	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	286	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	287	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	288	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	289	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	290	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	291	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	291	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	292	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	293	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	294	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	294	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	295	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	295	13,087

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 Barbados, Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.