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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 KoreaOmanLebanon
46,6172,3483,460
47,0082,4033,499
47,3702,4573,554
47,6452,5103,610
47,8922,5623,665
48,0832,6133,721
48,1852,6633,777
48,4382,7133,853
48,6842,7643,954
49,0552,8164,036
49,3082,8714,082
49,5542,9284,097
49,9372,9864,115
50,2003,0474,206
50,4293,1104,696
50,7473,1745,365
51,0153,2405,640
51,2183,3075,688
51,3623,3755,680
51,5853,4445,562
51,7653,5125,331
51,8363,5824,986
51,7453,6514,802
51,7313,6964,713

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

Lebanon

  • 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.