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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Norway	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	4,463	433
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	4,492	438
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,515	443
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,539	448
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,566	454
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,593	460
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,624	467
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,662	474
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,710	482
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,769	491
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,830	500
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,890	509
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,954	521
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,020	533
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,081	547
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,138	560
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,191	571
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,237	586
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,278	599
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,313	610
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,349	623
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,380	633
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,409	643
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,458	651

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