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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	Nepal	Burkina Faso	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	11,075	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	11,405	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	11,828	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	12,380	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	12,829	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	13,178	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	13,540	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	13,917	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	14,309	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	14,722	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	15,152	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	15,600	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	16,064	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	16,563	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	17,072	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	17,575	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	18,094	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	18,621	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	19,157	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	19,698	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	20,242	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	20,788	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	21,336	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	21,889	5,458

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 Nepal, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.