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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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