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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	6,910

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 Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.