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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	10,849

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

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828