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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Congo - Kinshasa	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	51,181	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	52,782	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	54,453	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	56,170	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	57,860	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	59,599	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	61,474	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	63,479	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	65,590	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	67,800	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	70,114	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	72,550	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	75,138	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	77,792	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	80,534	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	83,368	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	86,229	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	89,193	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	92,209	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	95,232	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	98,320	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	101,499	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	104,767	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	108,171	6,291

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.