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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Ecuador	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	12,268	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	12,446	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	12,629	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,827	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	13,074	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,368	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,661	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,915	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,133	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,352	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	14,569	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	14,786	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	15,002	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	15,218	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	15,433	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	15,647	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	15,860	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	16,072	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	16,282	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	16,489	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	16,693	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	16,894	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	17,093	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	17,288	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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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