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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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.