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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Oman	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	2,348	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	2,403	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	2,457	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	2,510	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	2,562	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	2,613	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	2,663	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	2,713	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	2,764	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	2,816	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	2,871	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	2,928	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	2,986	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	3,047	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	3,110	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	3,174	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	3,240	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	3,307	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	3,375	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	3,444	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	3,512	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	3,582	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	3,651	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	3,696	51,332

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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