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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date SudanSouth KoreaCongo - Kinshasa
26,16846,61751,181
26,77147,00852,782
27,38747,37054,453
28,01747,64556,170
28,66247,89257,860
29,32148,08359,599
29,99648,18561,474
30,68648,43863,479
31,39348,68465,590
32,13749,05567,800
33,07849,30870,114
33,89149,55472,550
34,56849,93775,138
35,29350,20077,792
36,09350,42980,534
37,05850,74783,368
38,16551,01586,229
39,29451,21889,193
40,51251,36292,209
41,76451,58595,232
42,95251,76598,320
44,12151,836101,499
45,29051,745104,767
46,49851,731108,171

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 Sudan, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.