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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Burkina Faso	Trinidad & Tobago
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	11,075	1,301
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	11,405	1,303
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	11,828	1,308
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	12,380	1,314
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	12,829	1,320
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	13,178	1,326
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	13,540	1,332
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	13,917	1,338
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	14,309	1,344
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	14,722	1,352
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	15,152	1,359
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	15,600	1,365
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	16,064	1,372
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	16,563	1,379
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	17,072	1,386
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	17,575	1,392
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	18,094	1,399
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	18,621	1,405
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	19,157	1,411
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	19,698	1,436
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	20,242	1,452
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	20,788	1,448
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	21,336	1,450
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	21,889	1,456

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 Burkina Faso, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.