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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	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,463	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,492	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,515	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,539	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,566	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,593	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,624	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,662	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,710	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,769	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,830	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,890	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,954	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,020	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,081	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,138	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,191	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,237	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,278	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,313	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,349	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,380	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,409	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,458	46,498

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