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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Congo - Kinshasa	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	51,181	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	52,782	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	54,453	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	56,170	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	57,860	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	59,599	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	61,474	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	63,479	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	65,590	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	67,800	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	70,114	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	72,550	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	75,138	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	77,792	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	80,534	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	83,368	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	86,229	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	89,193	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	92,209	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	95,232	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	98,320	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	101,499	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	104,767	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	108,171	39,252

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