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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.