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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date South KoreaHaitiCongo - Kinshasa
46,6178,12151,181
47,0088,27952,782
47,3708,43054,453
47,6458,58056,170
47,8928,73957,860
48,0838,90059,599
48,1859,06161,474
48,4389,21663,479
48,6849,36465,590
49,0559,50867,800
49,3089,65270,114
49,5549,55372,550
49,9379,67075,138
50,2009,79377,792
50,4299,92280,534
50,74710,04783,368
51,01510,25486,229
51,21810,48689,193
51,36210,64792,209
51,58510,78895,232
51,76510,93398,320
51,83611,077101,499
51,74511,215104,767
51,73111,349108,171

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 Haiti, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.