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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Türkiye	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	65,020	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	65,949	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	66,869	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	67,728	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	68,541	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	69,366	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	70,224	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	71,106	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	71,992	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	72,909	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	73,922	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	75,054	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	76,164	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	77,141	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	78,138	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	79,199	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	80,262	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	81,350	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	82,412	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	83,535	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	84,737	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	85,564	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	86,346	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	87,201	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.

All data sources

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

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.