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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	3,228

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

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