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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	51,181	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	52,782	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	54,453	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	56,170	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	57,860	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	59,599	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	61,474	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	63,479	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	65,590	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	67,800	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	70,114	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	72,550	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	75,138	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	77,792	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	80,534	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	83,368	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	86,229	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	89,193	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	92,209	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	95,232	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	98,320	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	101,499	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	104,767	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	108,171	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.