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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Romania	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	22,414	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	22,262	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	22,106	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	21,931	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	21,828	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	21,704	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	21,571	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	21,443	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	21,129	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	20,779	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	20,607	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	20,485	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	20,385	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	20,296	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	20,224	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	20,151	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	20,055	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	19,938	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	19,823	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	19,713	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	19,622	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	19,496	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	19,351	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	19,266	7,169

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 Libya; the database as a whole is cited above.