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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	Seychelles	Burkina Faso	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	78	11,075	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	79	11,405	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	80	11,828	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	81	12,380	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	82	12,829	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	83	13,178	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	84	13,540	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	85	13,917	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	86	14,309	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	87	14,722	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	87	15,152	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	88	15,600	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	89	16,064	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	90	16,563	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	91	17,072	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	92	17,575	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	92	18,094	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	93	18,621	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	94	19,157	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	95	19,698	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	96	20,242	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	97	20,788	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	98	21,336	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	98	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 Seychelles, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.