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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Dominican RepublicNorwayCongo - Kinshasa
8,1754,46351,181
8,3014,49252,782
8,4274,51554,453
8,5534,53956,170
8,6784,56657,860
8,8014,59359,599
8,9244,62461,474
9,0444,66263,479
9,1644,71065,590
9,2814,76967,800
9,3984,83070,114
9,5124,89072,550
9,6274,95475,138
9,7425,02077,792
9,8555,08180,534
9,9655,13883,368
10,0725,19186,229
10,1775,23789,193
10,2815,27892,209
10,3855,31395,232
10,4875,34998,320
10,5875,380101,499
10,6865,409104,767
10,7935,458108,171

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

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