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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	Barbados	Canada	Albania	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	3,085	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	3,065	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	3,047	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	3,038	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	3,026	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	3,014	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	2,998	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	2,979	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	2,957	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	2,934	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	2,915	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	2,900	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	2,892	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	2,888	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	2,882	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	2,876	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	2,868	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	2,863	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	2,861	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	2,854	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	2,842	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	2,825	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	2,799	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	2,787	34,280

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.

All data sources

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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.