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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tunisia	South Korea	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	46,617	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	47,008	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	47,370	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	47,645	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	47,892	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	48,083	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	48,185	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	48,438	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	48,684	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	49,055	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	49,308	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	49,554	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	49,937	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	50,200	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	50,429	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	50,747	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	51,015	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	51,218	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	51,362	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	51,585	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	51,765	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	51,836	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	51,745	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	51,731	2,787

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 Tunisia, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.