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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 KoreaRomaniaHonduras
46,61722,4146,198
47,00822,2626,367
47,37022,1066,535
47,64521,9316,698
47,89221,8286,863
48,08321,7047,028
48,18521,5717,194
48,43821,4437,359
48,68421,1297,522
49,05520,7797,682
49,30820,6077,839
49,55420,4857,991
49,93720,3858,141
50,20020,2968,288
50,42920,2248,429
50,74720,1518,546
51,01520,0558,661
51,21819,9388,770
51,36219,8238,878
51,58519,7139,002
51,76519,6229,154
51,83619,4969,304
51,74519,3519,448
51,73119,2669,590

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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