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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	South Korea	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	46,617	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	47,008	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	47,370	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	47,645	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	47,892	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	48,083	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	48,185	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	48,438	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	48,684	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	49,055	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	49,308	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	49,554	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	49,937	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	50,200	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	50,429	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	50,747	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	51,015	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	51,218	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	51,362	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	51,585	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	51,765	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	51,836	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	51,745	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	51,731	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 Mali, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.