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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Congo - Kinshasa	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	51,181	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	52,782	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	54,453	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	56,170	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	57,860	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	59,599	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	61,474	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	63,479	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	65,590	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	67,800	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	70,114	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	72,550	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	75,138	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	77,792	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	80,534	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	83,368	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	86,229	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	89,193	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	92,209	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	95,232	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	98,320	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	101,499	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	104,767	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	108,171	34,081

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.