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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Qatar	Congo - Kinshasa	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	627	51,181	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	659	52,782	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	691	54,453	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	724	56,170	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	757	57,860	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	850	59,599	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	1,001	61,474	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	1,153	63,479	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	1,306	65,590	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	1,460	67,800	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	1,615	70,114	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	1,770	72,550	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	1,904	75,138	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	2,010	77,792	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	2,103	80,534	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	2,187	83,368	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	2,261	86,229	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	2,326	89,193	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	2,384	92,209	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	2,435	95,232	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	2,480	98,320	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	2,519	101,499	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	2,553	104,767	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	2,559	108,171	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 Qatar, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.