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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Norway	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	4,463	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	4,492	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,515	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,539	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,566	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,593	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,624	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,662	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,710	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,769	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,830	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,890	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,954	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,020	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,081	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,138	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,191	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,237	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,278	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,313	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,349	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,380	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,409	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,458	5,907

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