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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Laos	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	5,286	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	5,397	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	5,499	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	5,578	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	5,654	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	5,746	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	5,836	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	5,931	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	6,035	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	6,145	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	6,257	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	6,368	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	6,477	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	6,586	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	6,695	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	6,804	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	6,912	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	7,019	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	7,127	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	7,234	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	7,343	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	7,452	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	7,560	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	7,666	51,731

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, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.