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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	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	3,736	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	3,809	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	4,043	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	4,287	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	4,466	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	4,602	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	4,708	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	4,818	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	4,918	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	5,023	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	5,132	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	5,246	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	5,364	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	5,486	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	5,613	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	5,744	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	5,879	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	6,019	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	6,163	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	6,312	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	6,461	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	6,611	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	6,761	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	6,910	108,171

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, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.