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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mauritania	Congo - Kinshasa	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	2,437	51,181	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	2,501	52,782	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	2,566	54,453	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	2,632	56,170	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	2,699	57,860	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	2,768	59,599	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	2,838	61,474	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	2,909	63,479	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	2,981	65,590	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	3,055	67,800	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	3,129	70,114	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	3,205	72,550	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	3,282	75,138	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	3,359	77,792	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	3,438	80,534	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	3,517	83,368	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	3,597	86,229	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	3,677	89,193	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	3,759	92,209	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	3,840	95,232	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	3,942	98,320	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	4,045	101,499	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	4,150	104,767	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	4,259	108,171	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 Mauritania, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.