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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	Sri Lanka	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,354	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	19,610	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,838	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	20,060	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	20,297	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	20,529	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,703	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,917	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,120	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,315	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,503	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,713	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	21,918	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,120	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,320	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	22,517	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	22,711	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	22,899	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	23,080	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	23,254	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	23,420	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	23,579	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	23,732	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	23,796	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.

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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

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, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.