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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	51,181	22,414	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	52,782	22,262	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	54,453	22,106	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	56,170	21,931	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	57,860	21,828	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	59,599	21,704	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	61,474	21,571	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,479	21,443	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	65,590	21,129	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	67,800	20,779	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	70,114	20,607	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	72,550	20,485	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	75,138	20,385	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,792	20,296	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,534	20,224	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	83,368	20,151	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	86,229	20,055	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	89,193	19,938	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	92,209	19,823	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	95,232	19,713	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	98,320	19,622	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	101,499	19,496	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	104,767	19,351	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	108,171	19,266	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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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