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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date NorwayOmanCongo - Kinshasa
4,4632,34851,181
4,4922,40352,782
4,5152,45754,453
4,5392,51056,170
4,5662,56257,860
4,5932,61359,599
4,6242,66361,474
4,6622,71363,479
4,7102,76465,590
4,7692,81667,800
4,8302,87170,114
4,8902,92872,550
4,9542,98675,138
5,0203,04777,792
5,0813,11080,534
5,1383,17483,368
5,1913,24086,229
5,2373,30789,193
5,2783,37592,209
5,3133,44495,232
5,3493,51298,320
5,3803,582101,499
5,4093,651104,767
5,4583,696108,171

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