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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 KoreaMoldova
46,6174,244
47,0084,199
47,3704,154
47,6454,108
47,8924,059
48,0834,013
48,1853,966
48,4383,919
48,6843,873
49,0553,829
49,3083,788
49,5543,748
49,9373,709
50,2003,671
50,4293,633
50,7473,595
51,0153,558
51,2183,522
51,3623,485
51,5853,448
51,7653,412
51,8363,376
51,7453,339
51,7313,570

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.