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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	Montenegro	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	623	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	623	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	623	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	622	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	621	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	621	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	621	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	620	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	620	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	621	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	622	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	623	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	622	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	622	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	622	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	621	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	620	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	618	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	616	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	614	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	613	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	612	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	611	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	610	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

Montenegro

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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; the database as a whole is cited above.