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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	9,188

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

Israel

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