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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	5,042

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

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