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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	Cameroon
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,463	15,483
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,492	15,913
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,515	16,354
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,539	16,815
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,566	17,289
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,593	17,764
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,624	18,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,662	18,746
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,710	19,278
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,769	19,843
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,830	20,419
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,890	21,002
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,954	21,586
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,020	22,181
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,081	22,800
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,138	23,513
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,191	24,273
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,237	24,995
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,278	25,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,313	26,373
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,349	27,114
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,380	27,878
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,409	28,663
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,458	29,417

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, Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.