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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Congo - Kinshasa	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	51,181	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	52,782	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	54,453	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	56,170	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	57,860	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	59,599	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	61,474	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	63,479	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	65,590	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	67,800	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	70,114	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	72,550	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	75,138	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	77,792	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	80,534	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	83,368	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	86,229	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	89,193	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	92,209	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	95,232	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	98,320	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	101,499	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	104,767	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	108,171	10,849

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

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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