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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Norway	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	4,463	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	4,492	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	4,515	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	4,539	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	4,566	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	4,593	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	4,624	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	4,662	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	4,710	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	4,769	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	4,830	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	4,890	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	4,954	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	5,020	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	5,081	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	5,138	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	5,191	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	5,237	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	5,278	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	5,313	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	5,349	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	5,380	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	5,409	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	5,458	108,171

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.