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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	Cambodia	Burkina Faso	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	12,122	11,075	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	12,317	11,405	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	12,504	11,828	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	12,691	12,380	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	12,881	12,829	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	13,076	13,178	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	13,276	13,540	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	13,461	13,917	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	13,630	14,309	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	13,808	14,722	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	13,990	15,152	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	14,162	15,600	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	14,322	16,064	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	14,480	16,563	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	14,637	17,072	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	14,793	17,575	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	14,994	18,094	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	15,238	18,621	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	15,480	19,157	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	15,717	19,698	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	15,944	20,242	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	16,149	20,788	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	16,338	21,336	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	16,514	21,889	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 Cambodia, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.