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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 KoreaOmanIran
46,6172,34864,704
47,0082,40365,411
47,3702,45766,167
47,6452,51066,689
47,8922,56267,807
48,0832,61368,480
48,1852,66369,325
48,4382,71370,158
48,6842,76471,040
49,0552,81671,942
49,3082,87172,888
49,5542,92873,826
49,9372,98674,625
50,2003,04775,446
50,4293,11076,418
50,7473,17477,521
51,0153,24078,652
51,2183,30779,700
51,3623,37580,725
51,5853,44481,721
51,7653,51282,685
51,8363,58283,614
51,7453,65184,505
51,7313,69685,108

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

Iran

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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