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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Oman	Serbia
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	2,348	7,611
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	2,403	7,587
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	2,457	7,574
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	2,510	7,570
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	2,562	7,551
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	2,613	7,533
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	2,663	7,510
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	2,713	7,481
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	2,764	7,451
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	2,816	7,419
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	2,871	7,389
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	2,928	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	2,986	7,304
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	3,047	7,269
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	3,110	7,234
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	3,174	7,199
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	3,240	7,162
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	3,307	7,124
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	3,375	7,087
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	3,444	7,048
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	3,512	7,010
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	3,582	6,964
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	3,651	6,898
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	3,696	6,833

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.

All data sources

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

Serbia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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