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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Romania	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	22,414	277
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	22,262	281
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	22,106	285
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	21,931	288
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	21,828	289
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	21,704	293
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	21,571	296
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	21,443	304
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	21,129	311
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	20,779	319
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	20,607	319
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	20,485	318
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	20,385	319
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	20,296	321
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	20,224	324
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	20,151	327
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	20,055	331
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	19,938	335
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	19,823	343
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	19,713	353
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	19,622	361
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	19,496	366
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	19,351	372
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	19,266	380

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.