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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	5,907

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.