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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Congo - Kinshasa	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	51,181	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	52,782	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	54,453	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	56,170	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	57,860	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	59,599	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	61,474	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	63,479	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	65,590	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	67,800	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	70,114	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	72,550	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	75,138	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	77,792	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	80,534	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	83,368	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	86,229	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	89,193	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	92,209	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	95,232	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	98,320	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	101,499	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	104,767	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	108,171	18,494

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