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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 NorwayUnited Arab EmiratesCongo - Kinshasa
4,4633,10151,181
4,4923,28452,782
4,5153,45854,453
4,5393,61356,170
4,5663,75457,860
4,5933,88259,599
4,6244,00061,474
4,6624,53263,479
4,7105,62365,590
4,7697,27767,800
4,8308,16470,114
4,8908,15272,550
4,9548,43875,138
5,0208,74777,792
5,0819,07780,534
5,1389,32183,368
5,1919,46186,229
5,2379,58789,193
5,2789,69992,209
5,3139,79695,232
5,3499,87998,320
5,3809,953101,499
5,40910,018104,767
5,45810,099108,171

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 United Arab Emirates, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.