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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 SenegalOmanSouth Korea
10,0702,34846,617
10,3052,40347,008
10,5762,45747,370
10,8642,51047,645
11,1722,56247,892
11,4982,61348,083
11,8392,66348,185
12,2042,71348,438
12,5842,76448,684
12,9782,81649,055
13,3822,87149,308
13,7942,92849,554
14,2262,98649,937
14,6683,04750,200
15,1213,11050,429
15,5893,17450,747
16,0663,24051,015
16,5493,30751,218
17,0443,37551,362
17,5353,44451,585
18,0213,51251,765
18,5183,58251,836
19,0163,65151,745
19,5123,69651,731

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 Senegal, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.