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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Burkina Faso	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	11,075	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	11,405	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	11,828	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	12,380	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	12,829	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	13,178	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	13,540	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	13,917	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	14,309	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	14,722	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	15,152	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	15,600	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	16,064	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	16,563	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	17,072	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	17,575	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	18,094	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	18,621	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	19,157	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	19,698	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	20,242	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	20,788	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	21,336	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	21,889	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.

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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

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.

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