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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	Luxembourg	Congo - Kinshasa	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	433	51,181	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	438	52,782	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	443	54,453	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	448	56,170	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	454	57,860	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	460	59,599	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	467	61,474	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	474	63,479	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	482	65,590	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	491	67,800	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	500	70,114	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	509	72,550	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	521	75,138	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	533	77,792	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	547	80,534	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	560	83,368	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	571	86,229	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	586	89,193	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	599	92,209	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	610	95,232	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	623	98,320	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	633	101,499	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	643	104,767	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	651	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

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