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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Canada	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	30,510	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	30,796	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	31,132	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	31,473	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	31,758	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	32,055	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	32,360	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	32,688	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	33,007	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	33,367	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	33,750	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	34,127	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	34,463	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	34,839	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	35,209	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	35,565	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	35,831	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	36,239	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	36,677	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	37,198	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	37,736	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	38,174	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	38,383	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	38,685	108,171

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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.