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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Congo - Kinshasa	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	51,181	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	52,782	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	54,453	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	56,170	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	57,860	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	59,599	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	61,474	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	63,479	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	65,590	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	67,800	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	70,114	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	72,550	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	75,138	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	77,792	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	80,534	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	83,368	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	86,229	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	89,193	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	92,209	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	95,232	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	98,320	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	101,499	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	104,767	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	108,171	2,748

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.

All data sources

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, Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.