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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Congo - Kinshasa	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	51,181	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	52,782	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	54,453	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	56,170	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	57,860	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	59,599	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	61,474	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	63,479	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	65,590	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	67,800	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	70,114	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	72,550	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	75,138	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	77,792	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	80,534	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	83,368	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	86,229	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	89,193	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	92,209	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	95,232	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	98,320	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	101,499	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	104,767	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	108,171	5,042

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, Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.