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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 KoreaOmanCongo - Kinshasa
46,6172,34851,181
47,0082,40352,782
47,3702,45754,453
47,6452,51056,170
47,8922,56257,860
48,0832,61359,599
48,1852,66361,474
48,4382,71363,479
48,6842,76465,590
49,0552,81667,800
49,3082,87170,114
49,5542,92872,550
49,9372,98675,138
50,2003,04777,792
50,4293,11080,534
50,7473,17483,368
51,0153,24086,229
51,2183,30789,193
51,3623,37592,209
51,5853,44495,232
51,7653,51298,320
51,8363,582101,499
51,7453,651104,767
51,7313,696108,171

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