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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Türkiye	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	65,020	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	65,949	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	66,869	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	67,728	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	68,541	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	69,366	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	70,224	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	71,106	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	71,992	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	72,909	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	73,922	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	75,054	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	76,164	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	77,141	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	78,138	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	79,199	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	80,262	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	81,350	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	82,412	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	83,535	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	84,737	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	85,564	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	86,346	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	87,201	7,666

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

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.