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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	Norway	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,463	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,492	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,515	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,539	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,566	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,593	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,624	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,662	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,710	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,769	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,830	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,890	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,954	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,020	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,081	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,138	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,191	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,237	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,278	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,313	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,349	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,380	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,409	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,458	21,889

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.