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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Ecuador	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	12,268	433
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	12,446	438
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	12,629	443
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	12,827	448
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	13,074	454
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	13,368	460
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	13,661	467
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	13,915	474
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	14,133	482
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	14,352	491
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	14,569	500
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	14,786	509
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	15,002	521
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	15,218	533
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	15,433	547
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	15,647	560
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	15,860	571
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	16,072	586
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	16,282	599
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	16,489	610
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	16,693	623
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	16,894	633
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	17,093	643
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	17,288	651

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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