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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	South Korea	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	433	46,617	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	438	47,008	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	443	47,370	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	448	47,645	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	454	47,892	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	460	48,083	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	467	48,185	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	474	48,438	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	482	48,684	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	491	49,055	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	500	49,308	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	509	49,554	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	521	49,937	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	533	50,200	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	547	50,429	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	560	50,747	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	571	51,015	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	586	51,218	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	599	51,362	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	610	51,585	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	623	51,765	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	633	51,836	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	643	51,745	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	651	51,731	17,288

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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