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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	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	422
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	430
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	438
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	447
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	455
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	463
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	471
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	478
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	486
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	494
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	501
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	509
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	516
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	524
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	531
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	539
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	546
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	553
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	562
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	568
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	574
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	580
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	585
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	590

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 Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.