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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	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	3,085	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	3,065	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	3,047	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	3,038	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	3,026	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	3,014	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	2,998	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	2,979	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	2,957	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	2,934	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	2,915	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	2,900	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	2,892	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	2,888	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	2,882	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	2,876	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	2,868	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	2,863	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	2,861	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	2,854	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	2,842	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	2,825	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	2,799	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	2,787	23,796

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.

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