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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	Mali	Oman	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	2,348	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	2,403	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	2,457	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	2,510	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	2,562	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	2,613	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	2,663	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	2,713	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	2,764	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	2,816	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	2,871	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	2,928	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	2,986	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	3,047	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	3,110	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	3,174	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	3,240	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	3,307	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	3,375	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	3,444	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	3,512	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	3,582	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	3,651	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	3,696	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 Mali, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.