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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 KoreaOmanSwitzerland
46,6172,3487,258
47,0082,4037,296
47,3702,4577,332
47,6452,5107,384
47,8922,5627,438
48,0832,6137,488
48,1852,6637,532
48,4382,7137,579
48,6842,7647,647
49,0552,8167,738
49,3082,8717,825
49,5542,9287,884
49,9372,9867,959
50,2003,0478,044
50,4293,1108,137
50,7473,1748,237
51,0153,2408,332
51,2183,3078,423
51,3623,3758,502
51,5853,4448,565
51,7653,5128,626
51,8363,5828,689
51,7453,6518,756
51,7313,6968,834

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

Switzerland

  • 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
  • 1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.