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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Burkina Faso	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	11,075	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	11,405	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	11,828	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	12,380	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	12,829	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	13,178	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	13,540	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	13,917	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	14,309	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	14,722	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	15,152	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	15,600	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	16,064	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	16,563	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	17,072	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	17,575	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	18,094	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	18,621	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	19,157	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	19,698	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	20,242	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	20,788	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	21,336	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	21,889	5,458

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.

All data sources

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

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Afghanistan, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.