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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	2,748

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 Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.