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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Oman	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	2,348	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	2,403	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	2,457	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	2,510	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	2,562	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	2,613	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	2,663	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	2,713	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	2,764	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	2,816	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	2,871	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	2,928	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	2,986	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	3,047	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	3,110	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	3,174	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	3,240	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	3,307	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	3,375	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	3,444	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	3,512	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	3,582	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	3,651	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	3,696	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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.