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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Burkina FasoNorwayCongo - Kinshasa
11,0754,46351,181
11,4054,49252,782
11,8284,51554,453
12,3804,53956,170
12,8294,56657,860
13,1784,59359,599
13,5404,62461,474
13,9174,66263,479
14,3094,71065,590
14,7224,76967,800
15,1524,83070,114
15,6004,89072,550
16,0644,95475,138
16,5635,02077,792
17,0725,08180,534
17,5755,13883,368
18,0945,19186,229
18,6215,23789,193
19,1575,27892,209
19,6985,31395,232
20,2425,34998,320
20,7885,380101,499
21,3365,409104,767
21,8895,458108,171

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