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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	Saudi Arabia	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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