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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	Dominica	Barbados	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	70	273	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	71	274	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	71	275	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	72	276	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	72	278	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	72	279	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	72	280	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	72	281	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	72	282	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	73	283	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	73	285	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	73	286	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	73	287	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	73	288	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	73	289	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	73	290	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	74	291	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	74	291	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	74	292	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	74	293	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	75	294	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	75	294	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	76	295	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	76	295	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

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 Dominica, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.