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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Yemen	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	16,728	433
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	17,236	438
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	17,762	443
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	18,310	448
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	18,855	454
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	19,410	460
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	20,000	467
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	20,611	474
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	21,236	482
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	21,878	491
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	22,533	500
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	23,195	509
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	23,880	521
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	24,594	533
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	25,311	547
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	26,020	560
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	26,698	571
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	27,347	586
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	27,985	599
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	28,608	610
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	29,216	623
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	29,811	633
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	30,399	643
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	31,058	651

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

No separate list is published for Yemen, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.