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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Norway	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	4,463	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	4,492	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,515	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,539	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,566	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,593	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,624	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,662	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,710	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,769	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,830	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,890	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,954	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,020	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,081	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,138	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,191	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,237	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,278	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,313	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,349	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,380	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,409	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,458	7,432

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.

All data sources

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